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...dilemma of the private enterpriser is his duty to safeguard capital in a political environment he mistrusts, while his only chance of preserving the system is by taking new risks-"by exercising enterprise as well as by being private." This dilemma, said Nourse, would be resolved if the whole class of enterprisers got going at once. "Risk which would be intolerable for the individual concern shrinks to bearable proportions if private business as a whole adopts and executes a concerted strategy of advance." In other words, private enterprise need have no fear of its post-war existence, if enough enterprisers...
...healthier and higher plane of living both materially and spiritually? What are we doing to remove the insufferable social sores that have been passed down to us by generations that lacked either the technological or social understanding to remedy them in their time? What are we doing to help safeguard the few hard-won gains that have been made in recent years...
More startling was Bishop Hurley's view that President Roosevelt alone should decide upon the U.S. entry into the war: "It is up to him to safeguard the interests of the nation in times of great emergency. . . . He must be ready to act fast and decisively should the need arise. . . . The problem [of entering the war] should be left to the Commander in Chief who alone, in loyal communication with Congress and in consultation with his military and naval advisers, is capable of bringing us safely through...
Still later it became known that immediately on landing the General had taken command of the island's sympathetic police, had bloodlessly arrested a pro-Vichy Government clique of 40 Tahitians (mostly judges, lawyers and doctors trying to safeguard their Government pensions), had removed them to a soft-aired concentration camp. By so doing, the General had removed resistance to a Tahitian plebiscite of last September, when the island's population declared themselves against the Vichy Government and in favor of General Charles de Gaulle by a vote...
...have military reasons for suppressing the news of a particular action. But in a democracy the people are presumably entitled to know when the shooting starts, particularly if the Government has not told them, and the function of a free, critical and informative press is to safeguard democracy by seeing that the people hear what they are entitled to know...