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...Should be able to adjust the dated but still lingering economic and ideological conflicts between London and Washington-a conflict summed up by President Roosevelt's sending of Harry Hopkins (extreme New Dealer) to England, while the British War Cabinet dispatched as Ambassador to Washington Lord Halifax (conservative and ex-appeaser...
...However, we are ready to adjust ourselves to new sets of facts and are planning to continue our research along present lines in order that we may be better able to play our part in assisting business and government in the years that lie ahead...
...boys or girls do not adjust themselves emotionally to the opposite sex during adolescence, they probably never will in a normal...
Henry Wallace, reluctant to adjust his policies to a changing world, spent the better part of eight years as Secretary of Agriculture, keeping the death of U. S. cotton export markets a political secret. Only after he became Term III's Vice-Presidential candidate did he publicly confront the dilemma. That was in a book: his campaign tract The American Choice-(Reynal & Hitchcock; $1), which told the U. S. that it would either have to subsidize more domestic consumption of cotton, or move several million surplus cotton farmers off their land...
...other hand, peoples, democratic or otherwise, who cannot adjust their institutions and choices to the needs of emergency decision are likewise doomed-for the opposite reason. If they cannot trust themselves to use the powers of their community for the common good-nay, the common life-they will not survive. Fear, distrust, suspicion-these are not the bases of vital power, States are not strong in proportion as their government is weak. Liberty is not secure in proportion as government has no power. Protection at home and abroad is the life of liberty. Protection against special groups at home...