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Stainless-Steel Logic. Fairless' stainless-steel logic somewhat outshone the fact that Big Steel's stand was just as stubborn as Phil Murray's. By refusirig to make any counter-offer at all, it was making deadlock inevitable. Furthermore, it left the Government's price controllers with the responsibility for breaking the dike against inflation, if it is to be broken...
Even if war does not come in this period, the professors add, the defense effort must still face some "very stubborn facts": the strain of rearmament on the economy of European nations, a shortage of critical materials in the U.S., and an "increasingly serious lag" in the production of defense weapons...
However, the group did warn the public that there were certain "stubborn facts' that they would have to face in 1952 These facts included Communist movements in Europe, shortage of raw materials in the U.S., a lag in defense production here, and the indifference of the American-people towards mobilization...
...About-Face. Just when the Reds appeared most stubborn, they performed a dramatic about-face. They accepted the principle of inspection and of a military "freeze" of existing forces. They proposed that: 1) neither side should introduce into Korea "any military forces, weapons and ammunition under any pretext during an armistice"; and 2) observation teams manned by nationals of "neutral" countries should inspect "ports of entry in the rear as mutually agreed upon...
...present and for the foreseeable future, Japan is solidly encamped with the free world. But she is going to stay in camp on her own terms. Unfortunately stubborn SCAP brass give little if any indication that they appreciate the difference between an army of occupation and a security force in a sovereign nation. The occupiers' unwillingness to give up the privileges-the luxury houses, the cheap and plentiful servants, the free schools-they have enjoyed for six years is understandable enough; the men who have run the most benevolent occupation in history have little to apologize for. But they...