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...problem can be solved; it is not hopeless. Raggedly and slowly, but surely, the country's human and material resources are being mobilized. That is an enormous gain; The Crisis which ended Britain's short, uneasy sleep would not have come if that had been true last year...
...front is what would be described in military dispatches as "fluid." In Congress, the Republicans, who hoisted labor legislation to a "must" position on the field of domestic action, are wrangling over what to do and how to do it. And while the Nation's solons wrestle with the hopeless task of trying to legislate labor disputes out of existence, the workers themselves are readying to do battle with their only really effective weapon--the strike...
...young Germans are perhaps the greatest danger. They are restless, hopeless, see themselves and their country without a future. Many follow single-mindedly the vision of a day when they will be called to arms again by either east or west. One put it thus: "I don't care which side it will be; I'll go with either one. I see myself again, running along beside our tanks, waving my men onward, marching, fighting, advancing -eastward or westward, I don't care, but fighting in a war which will make Germany great again...
Into the Nerves. Might a brain injection of this solution revive a dying patient with low blood pressure, weak pulse and feeble breathing? During World War II, Dr. Stern gave brain injections to shock victims given up for dead. The treatment was a dramatic success: of the first 383 "hopeless" cases, 302 recovered. By war's end, the treatment was standard in many Soviet hospitals...
...doctor. The organization has no officers, no dues, no big funds (its small Manhattan headquarters last year spent only $35,000, donated by members). Pledged to help other alcoholics, members do little proselyting, help only when they are called on. Before A.A., all but 5% of alcoholics were considered hopeless. Of A.A.'s members, some 50% never touch a drop after they join; 25% get on the wagon after one or two slips...