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Taft would not withdraw from Europe; he would keep there the six U.S. divisions already committed, and he would provide arms for allies. He would stay with the U.N. He would strive for a truce in Korea, then arm the South Koreans and pull out U.S. troops. But his basic point was that the U.S. could not match Russia in ground-force manpower. Nor must the U.S. "admit that our safety depends on begging bayonets from Germany or from France." The U.S. must be strong in its own right, and such strength lay, above all, in "control...
Witness Baruch was ready to agree that the rearmament program must guard against "obsolescence" and strive constantly to improve weapons. But concern with this factor-the bird in the bush-seemed to him to be blotting out the need for the U.S. to build up an overwhelming stockpile of guns and ammunition. Such an arsenal, if occasion arose, could supply peoples everywhere on the long Russian border, help pin down the Soviet armies, contribute decisively to the chances for peace...
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., recently named one of the world's best-dressed men, was asked to speak a few words to open the London tailoring exhibition. Sample of the words: "A generation drab in dress is drab in outlook." Tailors, he added, should strive for "restrained enterprise" in men's clothing. The sharp eyes of Savile Row cutters noted the speaker's own restraint: a double-breasted brown suit, cream shirt and frayed black tie (a relic of his days in U.S. Navy uniform...
...field . . . strive to give man "a sense of usefulness and importance" in as many areas of his living as possible; we are the searchers for those "things" which will help restore meaning and value to life's living. We are "a new art," a new philosophy, of which not too many are, as yet, even aware. And it is recognition (and clarification) like yours that gives us "a shot...
...audience of about 100, largely Mather partisans, heard him proclaim the ideal that "We are not afraid of ideas. We are ready to bet our lives on the superiority of our American system." Donlan asked that men "strive to make patriotism fashionable again," and advocated "a God-fearing community of friendly people...