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...time, the dictator may compel the rich to disgorge enough in taxes to keep a stream of job-creating money flowing into public works. But the continued use of tax money to subsidize one segment of society, such as the unemployed or the workers, inflames those who have to pay the steadily mounting bill. At some point along the line the dictator must find an excuse to make the tax-and-subsidize economy palatable to everybody. This is done by discovering an outside enemy, which justifies the final splurge in military public works...
...Britain, where there is a generally approved national conscription (set up as much to distribute woman power as to compel service), out of some 8,670,000 women registered for national service, 7,750,000 have full-time war jobs. At least 2,500,000 of them are in the military services...
...Enemy. Not only the rulers but the people of the Axis nations are our enemies. "We cannot overthrow the Japanese military caste short of complete defeat of the Japanese people such as will compel them to submit to our discipline...
...Mihiel. By the end of October the whole Meuse-Argonne front was aflame. In the gumbo mud of France 117,000 men of the First Army were dead or wounded. The German army was in retreat. On Oct. 30 Pershing wrote: "We should . . . continue the offensive until we compel [Germany's] unconditional surrender...
...German Generals and Officers! To the People and the Army! . . . The grave military reverses which began at the beginning of this year, as well as the steady deterioration of the German economy compel us to recognize the hopelessness of Germany's situation. . . . Every thinking German officer realizes that Germany has lost the war. . . . The war is continued solely in the interests of Hitler and his regime against the interest of the people and the Fatherland...