Word: post-war
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...many years before the end? The kind of world in which you and your generation will spend your days depends in no small measure on the answer to this question. Every day the war continues prolongs, the agony of civilization; every month adds to the chaos with which the post-war world must deal; every year increases the hazards which liberty must encounter when the war is won. Therefore, to insure victory in the shortest span of time, no sacrifice can be too great...
...some later day, as we struggle through the confusion of a post-war world it will be your task as citizens of the United States to see to it that a totalitarian virus does not corrupt this nation. That will require clear thinking, indomitable patience, and an understanding of the ways of peace. The two assignments--of war and peace--are paradoxically the same and yet far different. As regards methods, miles apart. Indeed, the winning of the war could engender such conditions in our minds that we would be unable to preserve liberty when the time of peace...
...that the new 78th Congress was less friendly than any of its predecessors, that any program he presented would have to run a gantlet of enemies on both sides of the aisle. And Franklin Roosevelt, who has his own ideas about the war, the peace to follow and the post-war U.S., was not willing to give up without a struggle. Nor would Franklin Roosevelt the politician, who has influenced the course of U.S. history more than most men before him, allow himself to lose the struggle through ineptness on this important occasion...
...Talked to Vice President Henry A. Wallace for an hour and a half before Wallace made another major speech on post-war policy (see p. 22). >Made his own plea for post-war planning in a statement on the first anniversary of the United Nations' pact: "In this as in no previous war, men are conscious of the supreme necessity of planning what is to come after-and of carrying forward into peace the common effort which will have brought them victory in the war. They have come to see that the maintenance and safeguarding of peace...
...fourth for single persons to one-half for a married man with five children-is regarded as forced savings to be refunded after the war. But this "postwar" rebate can be used at any time to buy war bonds, pay off old debts or meet insurance premiums. The method: deduct it from income taxes due in March, 1944. Since most taxpayers are buying war bonds or paying for insurance, they can thus regard the post-war refund as an advance payment on next year's income...