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...United Nations command in Korea ... challenged, met and hurled back the most vicious forces which have yet threatened mankind in its age-old struggle to gain and preserve the dignity and freedom of the individual...
Similarly, the industrial production of China is incredibly small compared to the size of the country; and the age-old self-sufficiency of the farm economy is still great enough to make out experience in Germany and Japan no guide for China. The war-time bombing of Germany and Japan is said by many specialists to have been a much over-rated operation in respect to its military effect. The physical set-up in China would inevitably make bombing much less effective than in those cases...
...Hoffman spoke, the twelve foreign ministers of the Atlantic Treaty nations were meeting in London. France's dramatic offer to pool her coal and steel industries with those of Germany could mean the beginning of the end of a primary cause of age-old hatreds in the West. Last week's announcements from London-of a permanent Atlantic Treaty strategy committee, of the Atlantic nations' aim to build toward a balanced, collective military force (see INTERNATIONAL)-meant that free men were no longer sitting on their feet and wringing their hands, but moving along a steady road...
...which they held, Chiang's forces became identified with defeat, despair and disorder. The will to resist waned and, by this curious conspiracy of circumstances, revolutionary Communism came to be associated with-of all things-order and the promise of peace. This was the process, sped by the age-old agonies of Asia's crowded, impoverished lands, that brought a determined, rebellious Hunanese peasant and an alien ideology of the West to the overlordship of China's millions...
Christ's authority, in short, concerned itself with just one level of life-"personal religious experience . . . The problem with which He wrestled was the age-old problem, the purification of the mind and heart of man. All His teaching was directed to that end and to no other whatsoever. I suggest that the preacher, when he fulfills his function as teacher, find there his guide and model...