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...President proposed that every youth take one year's military training when he was graduated from high school or turned 18-whichever came later. During the year he would learn something about all phases of the armed services and all weapons; afterward he would become part of a "general reserve" made up of all male citizens who have been trained in warfare. Six years later he would go into a "secondary reserve"-i.e., men less likely to be called immediately in case of emergency...
...Labor Front Leader Robert Ley: "I don't see how you can make laws after things have been done. Even God first made the Ten Commandments and judged people by them afterward...
...treaty discussions. On Sept. 11 the London Council unanimously adopted a resolution permitting all five ministers to discuss the treaties, but leaving the final decisions to the Big Three. For ten days Russia did not object. Then Molotov suddenly insisted on changing the procedure, excluding France and China, and afterward rejected every offer of compromise...
...right with right." Prodded by President Truman's blunt request for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin conferred with Reuven Zaslani, chief of the Jewish Agency, and with the new Arab League's Secretary-General Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey. Afterward, both breathed fire. Said Zaslani: in the event of bloodshed, "the Jews in Palestine will regard it as their fight." Said Azzam Bey: "The time has come when we must fight if necessary to save ourselves from the Jews...
...Long afterward, explorers picking their way through the jungle would come upon the gouged bodies of animals, eyes torn and bellies punctured. People hearing of these things assumed that the children from the cedar tree were vampires...