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...Course No. 1-that of waging all-out war against Russia-you quickly rule out by saying that the American people do not favor such a course. You are probably right. We are being much more clever...
...months ago, when we ran our story on the Soo's all-out fight against the worst ringworm epidemic ever recorded in the U.S. or Canada, 1,500 sufferers were taking painful treatments. Hundreds yelled while nurses snatched infected hairs out by the roots. The city was so itchy that teachers led classroom prayers for the plague to be lifted...
...less than U.S. garrisoning of Western Europe: 1) build up "enough economic and political vigor, enough military strength" around "the captive world" to withstand Communist aggression by civil war "or even by satellite attacks"; 2) hold unswervingly to the Atlantic Treaty's promise to fight Russia if she started all-out war-but keep the freedom to counterattack wherever & whenever the U.S. thought it would do the most good...
...still capable of gigantic growth. No one thought that it could grow big enough-or fast enough-in the next few years to pour out civilian goods at 1950's rate and also rearm the nation. But most economists and businessmen knew that, barring the sudden arrival of all-out war, it could grow fast enough to keep the standard of living close to the present level and still meet the arms quotas...
Schlesinger said that he could foresee no all-out war with the Russians in 1951. He felt that Russia would not attack the United States because it had an inadequate stockpile of atomic bombs. Schlesinger considered that another deterrent to immediate Soviet aggression was the Marxist theory which held the disintegration of Democracy is inevitable...