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...world's peace, says the book, they must be dealt with like any homicidal criminals. But it is unnecessary to put the whole German nation to the sword. It is more humane to sterilize them. "The army groups, as organized units, would be the easiest and quickest to deal with. Taking 20,000 surgeons as an arbitrary number and on the assumption that each will perform a minimum of 25 operations daily, it would take no more than one month, at the maximum, to complete their sterilization. . . . The balance of the male civilian population of Germany could be treated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Modest Proposal | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...Ominous." Quickest reaction came in the incensed comments of Senator Wheeler, whose isolationist ammunition had lately been running low. ("The President not only desires to muzzle Senators who oppose him but he wants to muzzle the press and keep facts away from the people. . . .") A few White House correspondents thought they detected portents in the President's talk regarding the shape of news to come. Warned the New York Sun: ". . . an ominous climax to a long series of events that have led definitely in the direction of Governmental control of the press." Some reporters were puzzled, reacting as though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ethics and Censorship | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...recent weeks, in one of the quickest reconciliations in journalism, the two old men really got together. On the Lend-Lease bill, they discovered they were true brother isolationists under the skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All in the Family | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...quickest route to socialism, says Willkie, is loose fiscal policy, which wrecks private enterprise whether the citizenry wants it wrecked or not. On that score the British are taxing themselves far more cruelly than is the U. S., are paying-as-they-go for as much of war's cost (currently around one-third) as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Willkie on British Business | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...meet this serious situation, C. I. O. headquarters last week demanded a national prefabricated housing program. C. I. O. intimated that A. F. of L. building unions have created a bottleneck of skilled building labor; declared that prefabrication, using unskilled labor to assemble the houses, is the quickest way around it. In San Diego. 3,000 houses are planned for aircraft workers. But San Diego is already building at the rate of 2,400 houses a year. The local skilled-labor supply (says C. I. O.) cannot do both the normal and emergency jobs at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: Let Them Eat Summer Resorts | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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