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...turn to building $50 billion a year worth of tanks, planes and guns with only a temporary halt in the flow of new houses, bigger television screens and better automatic toasters. "The productivity of the U.S. is so tremendous," said Charles Wilson recently, "that if we started an all-out economic mobilization today, we could practically fill Texas with war machines...
Less than ten years ago, the University faced the same problems of war mobilization it has today. However, after Pearl Harbor the United States was in all all-out war, and changes came more rapidly than they have this year...
...harder now to get American college professors to journey to Salzburg for the purpose of teaching the Europeans about the United States. Most of those planning to go have said they will make the trip in any situation short of ...
Unworkable Formula. Disjointed U.S. policy encourages its enemies, bewilders its friends (especially Britain) and annoys its people, who know quite clearly that passive "containment" is no longer a workable formula. That is why the attitude of the American people is: get out of Korea or go all-out. "All-out" does not mean "drop atomic bombs on Russia"; it means go after the enemy in whatever is the most effective...
...from "any serious divergencies...between our policy and that of the United States." Churchill was interrupted by Laborite Ellis Smith, who shouted: "We are not going to be trapped into war." Smith and many other Britons fear that "hysterical" or "angry" U.S. diplomacy might land the U.S. (and Britain) in all-out war with Red China...