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...Army & Navy backed away from the war and squared off to fight each other. The new weapons were words, the battlefield the committee rooms and the lobbies of Congress. The issue: whether the two service departments should be merged into a single Department of Military Security...
...Dutch stood by their 1942 pledge of self-government for the Indies in a new Netherlands Commonwealth, but they boggled at dealing with Soekarno, began shipping troops from Holland to the island battlefield. British troops, holding the imperial fort until sufficient Dutch forces arrived, were caught in the middle. They were criticized by the natives for helping the Dutch, by the Dutch for haggling over the conditions of help. At week's end the Allied commander in Java, British Major General D. C. Hawthorn, proclaimed that looting, sabotage, possessing or refusing to surrender arms by natives would be punished...
...move. . . . Once this is known, a staff of technically trained men can follow any one of the roads indicated by the Smyth report and will then, step by step, discover what we have discovered. . . . It took us . . . three years to achieve the transfer from the laboratory to the battlefield. Other countries should be able to produce atomic bombs in two to five years...
...University of La Plata, students turned 20 blocks in the center of town into a battlefield. They blacked out the area by breaking street lights, then tripped up mounted policemen with low-strung wires. Over an improvised radio station, engineering students broadcast denunciations of the military regime...
...beginning of a period of psychological reconversion no less important than the readjustment of our economic life. The moral imperatives of the battlefield must be transformed into those of a free society which believes in the supreme significance of each individual man or woman...