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...Malan is not so foolish as he sounds. He knows he cannot win this year, and his strategy in this election has been to kill off the rival New Order and Afrikaner Parties, absorb all anti-British South Africans into the Herenigde Party. His long-run aim is victory in the next (1948) election. His platform then will consist of one big plank: to take South Africa out of the British Empire and establish it as an independent republic. And he will dearly hope that popular strong-man Smuts, 73, will have passed from the political scene...
Postwar economic problems can be divided usefully into two categories: The immediate postwar problems of reconversion to a peacetime economy and the long-run problem of full employment. It is my view that effective government policy designed to cope vigorously with these problems would promote the workability and expansion of our system of private enterprise and ensure the continued development of our free political institutions...
...Taking a long-run view of the postwar period, it is probable that great technical developments will emerge from the war experience. Improved plant layouts, new and cheaper methods of production, the discovery and development of substitutes, new raw materials, new processes and new products will offer a great stimulus to the postwar economy. On the basis of this technological development plus the accumulated shortages in housing, accumulated deficiencies in the ordinary type of public works especially in urban communities, shortages in durable consumers' goods; and in plant and equipment for civilian industry, there is the basis for postwar prosperity...
...United States would single-handedly dominate or at least exercise influence over all the nations of the world. Such a military training program might easily develop an army so large that the government would be tempted to use it not as a weapon of temporary expediency, but as a long-run substitute for mutual cooperation and the eventual restoration of political and economic equality of the defeated nations...
...strategy has always been a war of attrition with Japan. We can expect a long war, with initial setbacks such as the loss of islands and ships, but the long-run factors are on our side...