Word: rearmaments
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...command, with a few exceptions, exemplifies the insulation, compartmented authority, punctilio which make up "the military mind." One of the notable exceptions was onetime Chief of Naval Operations William Daniel Leahy, whom the President last week called in from Puerto Rico, reportedly to help coordinate the confused preliminaries to rearmament. The Army's George Marshall is also exceptional-a brilliant, flexible iconoclast whose war on mental dry rot has done much to stimulate and modernize the service. But even he must placate work with and through traditionalists who outnumber him. Last week the Army-Navy commands' shortage...
Speaking under the auspices of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, Conant advocated a program for this country that includes immediate rearmament; the sending of Army and Navy airplanes to England and France "without impairing our own security"; repeal of the laws which prevent United States citizens from volunteering to serve in foreign armies; control of exports with the purpose of "aiding the Allies by avoiding leaks to Germany"; and the cooperation of the U. S. Maritime Commission with the Allies "in every possible way under our present laws to expedite the sending of suplies and munitions...
...Army. Why, then rose the cry of fear and anger last week was the U. S. not armed? Ofcourse the money has been well spent, said Commander in Chief Roosevelt, instantly on the defensive. A further answer: by no means all the money was spent for rearmament. Huge are the "housekeeping" (maintenance) expenses for even a skeletal Army, a growing Navy...
Ramsay MacDonald has been flayed before, but never so mercilessly as Mr. Muggeridge flays him as "Mr. High-Mind"; Buchmanism has been ridiculed before, but seldom so savagely: "Like moral courage, moral victory, moral anything, Moral Rearmament represents an attempt to reconcile the contrary demands of flesh and spirit by including them in one comprehensive formula. Moral Cannibalism would probably make a strong appeal to cannibals, and Moral Rape to the inmates of lunatic asylums." So it goes, with reference to almost everything: fuddlement, vulgarity and ineptitude...
Athlone after break of war opened a "worldwide moral rearmament weekend" of the Oxford Group with solemn words: "Our thoughts go out tonight to all who are facing special sacrifice or suffering...