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Pundit Krock urged that "If we have a postwar policy toward Europe, including the disposition of Germany, the time is overdue to state it. If we have not yet formulated such policies, it should be done at once lest events, including strong moves by Soviet Russia, render them obsolete and ineffectual before they can be stated...
...begins. This can be funny when played by two experts. Another game, invented by the marines in New Zealand, is played with white rubber balloons, which are inflated and batted through the air. The object is to hit the balloons with lighted cigarets. This game keeps every spectator alert, lest he find a glowing cigaret down his neck...
...hate sin and love the brethren. And even in his corrections, let him act with prudence, and not go too far, lest while he seeketh too eagerly to scrape off the rust, the vessel be broken. Let him keep his own frailty ever before his eyes. . . . And by this we do not mean that he should suffer vices to grow up; but that prudently and with charity he should cut them off, in the way he shall see best for each, as we have already said; and let him study rather to be loved than feared...
Despite these moves and decisions, the nation's capital still had a hollow feeling. This came from the belief that U.S.-Soviet relations had reached a point of new delicacy. Shaken by the rough-&-tumble diplomatic maneuvers of the Soviet Union, the Administration was worried lest a considerable segment of the U.S. might come to feel that the U.S. was fighting merely to make Europe safe for Russia. Such a feeling might be disastrous in an election year...
...Lest the amply fed think that India's immense misery had passed, an American missionary wrote home a letter: "It will take at least five years to recover from the effects [of 1943's famine] from a health standpoint, and more than that to recover from a moral standpoint. . . . The poor have sold off their goats, chickens, cattle, brass vessels, ornaments, and the like in the past hard year and are far less well prepared to meet the exigencies of another such year...