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U.M.T., said the commission, would provide a constantly replenished reservoir of trained manpower which a year after M-day could be mobilized into an effective force of around 7,500,000. Estimated cost of the program: $1,750,000,000 a year, less than the sum spent in one week in World War II, but quite a little item in any peacetime year...
...thousands of other eager new Truman Doctrinaires, still had to learn that Britain was not Guam. Most Americans took Britain's role as a U.S. ally for granted. If the chips ever went down, Britain could scarcely play any other role. And there was still a vast reservoir of British good will toward the U.S.-as a British miner's wife illustrated last week by soundly bussing U.S. Ambassador Douglas.* Nevertheless, Britain was a resentful and reluctant ally...
...Etna. In Sicily, Mt. Etna was erupting again. A wide stream of lava creeping down its 10,741-ft. slope had cut a mountain highway, partially filled a reservoir, and frightened the villagers of Cisterna from their homes...
Every so often Americans become aware that much of the rest of the world intensely dislikes them. This surprises and sometimes pains them acutely, especially since they complacently believe that their unique record of staggering charities to the rest of the world should forever replenish that "reservoir of good will" which Wendell Willkie used to talk about...
...months the level of the reservoir has been slowly dropping. Last week's readings on the good-will gauge were disturbing...