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Actually, the U.S. Government has no thought of boosting the price. Reason: it would probably do more harm than good abroad. Canada, South Africa and Russia, which has a huge stockpile, would be helped. But for dozens of other nations, which owe the U.S. money, it would only mean further depletion of their already skimpy foreign reserves...
...will do you French all the harm I can." So said the pint-sized (5 ft. 2 in.), pale-faced Corsican named Buonaparte, who shunned his military schoolmates, read Plutarch in the library instead of playing games. Classmate Louis de Bourrienne also had the luck to be standing with 23-year-old Napoleon, then an out-at-the-elbow discharged officer, as he watched the howling mob sweep through the Tuileries to crown Louis XVI with the red cap of Liberty. He recorded young Buonaparte's Italian exclamation: "Che coglione! How could they let that rabble in? They should...
...Unfortunately, Massachusetts laws may force us not to employ people whom we want to employ," he continued. "If this tendency is not reversed, much harm may result to prospective employees who have disorders which are not disabling but may become so in the future...
...Geneva Conference, said Dean Acheson, "was not merely a failure; it was a fraud and positive harm . . . Unless the situation is ripe for settlement, then, no matter how eminent the participants, how perceptive their insight, how bold and imaginative their conceptions, their efforts will fail. In the last twelve years the international conference has ceased to be an instrument for ending conflict and has become one for continuing it. For high international negotiations it is not necessary that chiefs of state or heads of government be involved...
Disarmament unquestionably has moral overtones, and public debate on that count can do little harm. But the central issue is its strategic value for the security of the U.S.; the ethical question must remain secondary, since self-preservation must be the nation's cardinal objective. In the '30's public over-optimism and moralizing on the issue of neutrality led the Government to tie its hands militarily, leaving the country unprepared for World War II. Public disregard of the strategic importance of preparedness distracted official attention from the realities and necessities of the world situation...