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...evolved a panacea, full of the gusty notions of Oswald Spengler. He proposed that the battling nations abandon their differences, present a united front against "foreign races." Among those he described as inferior aliens were the Mongols, the Persians and the Moors, who he feared would corrupt the blood stream of the west. That bloodstream, he pointed out, was our most precious pos session...
...Supreme War Council, or Allied Command, or World G.H.Q. to be set up in Washington was a rumor that ran the streets there last week. Geography made the location inevitable; the productive power of the U.S. clinched it. The President was thinking about the problem: a stream of dope stories and one White House statement made certain that plans for such a council "of joint planning for unity of action" was under way. "High personages'' from other anti-Axis nations were reported on the ocean or in the skies, Washington-bound...
...Washington, to which stream some 6,000 war workers a month, were ordered 10,000 Federal employes in twelve agencies, which must be relocated in New York City (Patent Office), Philadelphia (SEC), Chicago (Railroad Retirement Board), St. Louis (FSA, REA), and Pittsburgh (Labor Department's Wage & Hour Division). Other shifts will follow...
While Americans in the Philippines, annoyed by MacArthur's refusal to enter greatly into their social life, laughed at him and styled him Napoleon of Luzon, MacArthur sweated to forge a fighting force. Back to Washington went a stream of able reports, stressing the necessity for supplies for his Philippine Army. In his air-conditioned, penthouse apartment he gave fervid interviews to visiting newsmen, telling them how tough was his Philippine Army. He would stride back & forth across his room, purpling the air with oratory, punctuated by invocations of God and the flag, pounding his fist in his palm...
Steinbeck bathed, too, in a heady stream of life-force. At Cape San Lucas he observed that the rocks were "ferocious with life....Perhaps the force of the great surf which beats on this shore has much to do with the tenacity of the animals here. It is noteworthy that the animals, rather than deserting such beaten shores for the safe cove and protected pools, simply increase their toughness and fight back at the sea with a kind of joyful survival. This ferocious survival quotient excites us and makes us feel good, and from the crawling, fighting, resisting qualities...