Director frequently commiserated with Hayek over politics from his own perch in wartime Washington: “In a future war we must give some consideration to economizing the use of authoritarian control, this not so much because it has alternative uses but because the supply of good controlled is very limited, and because its utilization may accustom us to accept it after the war is over” (1940, 360).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 733