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...likewise is required if excess productive capacity is to be adjusted to consumptive demand. These are ideas which will be incorporated in any peace. The point is that in breaking the shackles which restrained these ideas, the Nazis have generated new forces such as the superior race cult and ceaseless expansion doctrine. That these forces are wrong no one will deny, but that they are more wrong than the stupid devices of the World War I victors in their try at world management is questionable...
Said he: "Even now, as I speak, sleek grey destroyers flying the American flag are plunging their bows into the waters of the North Atlantic. . . . No enemy action can stop the ceaseless tide of ships coming here daily . . . laden with something more substantial than hopes and sympathy...
...knew how much was left of the Russian Air Force - the Germans had claimed to have destroyed some 8,000 planes - but apparently some of it still functioned, though mostly at night. The Berlin radio spoke of "ceaseless mass raids such as we have never experienced before...
Ruling the 16 millions of France's North African Empire (only one million of whom are French) with a steadily dwindling French Army is trying even for the adroit General. The Moslem natives, subject to a ceaseless barrage of German propaganda, have been grumbling under the British blockade that deprives them of sugar for their much-loved sweetened mint...
Emerson is Matthiessen's toughest assignment "because of his inveterate habit of stating things in opposites." He all but worshiped Plato's ability to reconcile fact and abstraction, spent his life in a ceaseless effort to do likewise. That effort made him what he said of Goethe: "The cow from which the rest drew their milk." His conceptions of "the infinitude of the private man," of the equality of all souls, of content as above expression (to the point of windy disregard for expression), of the poet as seer or prophet, of the intuitive moment as final knowledge...