Word: saneness
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...scale war; yet when the war is over its people will presumably be asked to submit to a trade-pact tariff-lowering policy, which they feel is a sock at their bread-basket. And what steps are being taken against the post-war flames of hate which make any sane treatment of a defeated enemy impossible? Lastly, is there any hope that Congress will knife through political morass and public let-George-do-it-iveness to solve the problem of wartime inflation, and so cushion the eventual shock...
Meanwhile, through all this panic-y year, the students on the whole have remained sane and sober. Their level-headed composure has driven some of the professors into a veritable frenzy. They forget, these professors, that war is serious business for the young--that it wrecks their lives while the oldsters stay safely at home and continue uninterruptedly their careers. They forget also that the now generation have been disillusioned about war, while the old generation are still nursing the fantasies and fables in which they were reared years ago. But they are doing their best to break down...
Myopic warriors, fighting only to win the immediate engagement, usually find when the battle smoke clears that theirs is a hollow triumph because no one has made sane preparation for the peace. Isolationists like. Chicago's Hutchins hold on this basis that America is not mentally mature enough to make entry in the War worth the cost--that we will make our high-flown pledges meaningless by again torpedoing the peace conference and by again helping create an economic situation in which the vanquished must starve or resort to arms...
...doctor: "Gino acted like a man who cuts off his arm to escape blood poisoning. By the cruel deed, he eradicated his own mother-complex." Such a violent act to release a neurosis Dr. Wertham calls "catathymic crisis." It accounts, says he, for many murders committed by otherwise sane persons. After the temporary aberration they may have a good chance of returning to sanity again...
After a sanity test (verdict: sane) Private Habinyak was court-martialed, pleaded guilty to a list of charges of insubordination. Then the court-martial showed it had little more sense of proportion than Private Habinyak. Its sentence: ten years and nine months in prison. Luckily for stubborn John Habinyak (and for the Army), the sentence had to be reviewed by the Secretary of War and the President. This week the War Department announced the sentence had been cut to a more reasonable three years...