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Holmes' accusations are vigorously denied by Maj. Remo G. Gandin at the Massachusetts Selective Service headquarters. "We defer people because its going to be a hardship on them. ...When we can't use everyone in the country, we can and should be selective. ...We take the best qualified and the ones who will cause the least trouble to the armed forces while they...
...people were killed "conventionally" in World War II, Hughes points to this fact: the casualties in World War II occurred "over a six-year period in a very widely extended territory, most of them in the countryside rather than in the cities, at least as many by starvation and hardship as by violent death," while in a nuclear war the deaths would occur in "the holocaust of a day or two." This to Hughes makes all the difference. His view is a classic example of "quantitative morality...
...farmers. Conservative businessmen argue that the natural action of the free market would remove unnecessary workers from agriculture. Men who could not earn a living through agriculture would be compelled to take other jobs. On account of the present rate of unemployment such an approach would cause much hardship. It is not the currently accepted mode of handling other labor problems, and there is very little basis for making an exception for farmers. The apparent humane solution would be a federally sponsored retraining program to prepare inefficient farmers for jobs in industry...
...every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any joe to assure the survival and success of liberty...
Sense of Whimsy. Hardship never crushed Reder's sense of whimsy. His people may be half bird; he invents preposterous musical instruments, designs costumes and headdresses that are pure fancy. His ideas come from almost anywhere-from the Old Testament, from Rabelais, from the memory of a statue of Napoleon (see color) or of a dwarf back in Czernowitz with a large head. "All I know is that when the time comes, the idea is there. It comes from my stomach, from my blood. And I never ask my blood...