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...talks were promising. The plans must be precise. To the U.S. soldiers and to the people the results of the Sphinx Conference in Cairo, and the Teheran meeting, could only mean that ahead was war in deadliest earnest. "From west and south" millions of American soldiers must descend upon the continent, their lives staked against the hope of a better world. Many will never return...
...week's end the rumors subsided: maybe the war would go on for a while after all. But this week opened with a new wave of selling: maybe, on the other hand, unprosperous peace would soon descend on the land...
...this is most important don't let the hearings or the evidence ever descend to the plane of a personal fight between the Committee chairman and the head of the agency being investigated. The high plane . . . should be maintained at all costs...
...economy be removed while the war is in progress; if it is not, he believes that nothing can prevent disillusionment, upheaval and violence. "Totalitarian war compels men to live on the heights [where] they can see vistas which become obscure once more when, as the challenge is overcome, they descend again into the valley. . . . Great leadership would take advantage of [the present] mood...
...Descend lower, descend only...