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When, in 1951, he voted to cut foreign aid by $350 million, Kennedy had just returned from a trip to Europe. Speaking of what he had seen, he said: "If Europe is to be saved, Europe must commence to make sacrifices . . . commensurate with the danger that threatens to engulf her . . . The plain and brutal fact today is that Europe is not making these sacrifices . . . her military budgets in terms of their proportion of the national income are far below those that we propose for ourselves. Her draft of manpower is less severe than what we suggest should govern us here...
...same deterioration as those be tween Catholics and Protestants, said Bernstein. But "underlying tensions" do manifest themselves. His advice to Jews: "Do not live in a fool's paradise. Do not take any satisfaction from the current Catholic-Protestant frictions ... A poisoned atmosphere of divisiveness and distrust will engulf...
What has taken away the capacity for indignation that used to rise like a mighty wave and engulf the corruptors-the corruptors of public office, of business, of youth, of sports...
...rightly, then (it may well be than I do not), he would have us believe that the human personality is so good that it must be meticulously developed, and at the same time so bad that if allowed to combine with its fellows in a joint endeavor it will engulf us all in destruction too terrible to describe at any length...
Although appealing in its simplicity to the military mind, this hardly disposes of the case. Those thinkers concerned with the evolution of the species cannot fail to take notice of Mr. Husband and his cephalic tick-tock. Heretofore mankind has feared that the machines it created would someday engulf it. Hardly reckoned upon has been the spectre of human devolution into protoplasmic mechanisms. Today, the public turns apprehensively to these tight-lipped toilers in Social Relations Laboratories the country over for polysyllabic reassurance. It is to be hoped that the experts will not stand mute to the challenge...