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...huge cash balance was the result of 1) the sudden end of the war and the consequent cutting of military and naval expenses below budget appropriations, and 2) the greatly oversubscribed Victory Loan Drive of August-December 1945, the chances of similar debt reductions in years to come are nil...
...give Europeans something to thing about in favor of American and her system of government. Tiredly shelving a bill to help solve the DP problem by letting some immigrants into the country, Congress has instead pushed to absured measures the attempt to "roundup" communists, whose influence of course is nil in a country as rich as the U.S. today...
...staff was conservative, scholarly Dr. James Frederic Dewhurst, 52, ex-professor and onetime head of economic research for the Department of Commerce. The report's most important conclusion is that the U.S., for the first time, is close to having the tools, workers and know-how to nil the basic needs of its population. This hopeful prospect is not a prediction. It is a statistical projection based on normal long-term trends of U.S. growth-in population, wealth, consumption, demand, spending, etc., and the assumption that the U.S. will not be plunged into a catastrophic depression...
What are the chances of this wishful program being enacted rather than Truman's? Practically nil. The people and their leaders are both confused, the reactionary politicians in Congress too strong, the President himself is being advised by men with no conception of how to run a democratic foreign policy. What can anyone do? They can fight on this issue not with the hope of winning any but minor concessions, but with the hope of clearing up the confusion, of driving home to the people and the Administration and Congress, the point that democracy's enemies cannot defend democracy. Perhaps...
That so many thousands should spend months--as they so obviously did--rehearsing for a useless and esthetically nil demonstration before a tired and uninterested Stalin must prove at least incredible, if not horrifying, to any American--"liberal" or otherwise...