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With artful compromise, he invented partial conscription. Draftees would have to go overseas-but only some of them, and maybe none at all. Neither the anti-conscriptionist French nor the pro-conscriptionist English were completely satisfied, but both grudgingly accepted the solution...
...Krash, editor, did not deny that Harvard specifically called the tract a "golden mean," hardly a revolution, and that the Report pointedly disclaims originality, attempting to cull the best from both extremes of current controversy: "Without denying the partial value of any . . . views we believe rather that the main task of education is to interpret at all stages both the general and the particular; both the common sphere of truth and the specific avenues of growth and change...
...Navy could still win a partial victory with a compromise guaranteeing that its own air arm be kept inviolate. Said one Navy man: "The Army is strong for a separate air force, Nimitz is strong for air power. Those two positions are not far removed, are they?" Army airmen intent on getting all air power (except Navy carrier-based craft) under one head, would answer, "Yes, they...
Bald, 50-year-old Bob Lovett, World War I veteran, Wall Street businessman, and articulate advocate of air power, had also served five years. He reorganized and even achieved partial autonomy for the A.A.F. He has been the Air Forces' most successful salesman, both in brass-hat circles and Congressional committee rooms, and a crack administrater of A.A.F. into the bargain...
...Communists were not likely to succeed, but the effort in the field increased their chances of partial success - or, at least, of survival - at the conference table in Chungking. They were bound to make the effort, and Chiang Kai-shek was duty-bound to forestall them where he could, fight them where he must...