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MARSHALL: "It is very difficult to win on a defensive basis [but] it is very reckless when you are under strength to plunge in on an aggressive offensive procedure. There have been some notable defensive campaigns in history which have ended in an offensive and decisive action . . . Notably, one was the peninsula campaign under Wellington . . . His campaign was measured in years ... In the end, he really played a leading part in the complete upset of the Napoleonic regime. He had to start on a defensive basis. He had no other choice. We have had to start on a defensive basis...
MACARTHUR: "It would be utterly reckless and foolish for the U.S. to even consider...
...reckless bravery (he was twice wounded, once gassed) won him 13 medals (plus seven citations and 24 foreign decorations), a brigadier general's star and, eventually, command of the division. Back in the U.S., he became superintendent of West Point (at 39), history's youngest Chief of Staff (at 50). In 1932, he incurred political unpopularity by personally commanding, under Herbert Hoover's orders, the troops which drove the veterans' Bonus Army from Washington's Anacostia Flats...
...Hope. There is one dimly hopeful side to the teen-age dope problem. Unlike older people, few teen-agers appear to take to drugs because of psychological troubles; youngsters usually start using narcotics either out of ignorance or the same reckless impulses which lead them to race hot rods. Though they are easier to wean, however, there are almost no facilities for taking care of them. On New York's Rikers Island, youngsters have to endure the horrors of a sudden "cold turkey" cure or get none at all. Once released, many go right back to drugs again...
...British side, some of the most barbed taunts and reproaches, as reckless as those of the McCormick press in the U.S., have come from London's New Statesman and Nation...