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...Manchuria, Korea? The question reminded the men of SCAP that the answer depended on more than the enmity or forgiveness of those peoples. So long as large areas of those countries were Communist battlefields, there would be little chance of restoring trade. Japan might (for a while) continue to subsist on U.S. doles, a prostrate ward. But its long-range prospects as a free nation would be hopeless...
Believe it or not, many people seem to subsist on headlines alone. When, on February 12, the first quotation was emblazoned on the front page of the CRIMSON with my name attached, several of my friends (who should know better) were horrified, "Do you really believe that Communist teachers are not dangerous...
...from a well man during the last two years of coaching at Harvard, Harlow had to restrict his time on the practice field and subsist on a strict diet...
...European Bibles destroyed by the hand of war, and by the anti-clericalism of the totalitarian states has emerged as the foremost immediate problem of the Society. Early last year Dr. Martin Niemoeller was furnished with 1000 Bibles to give to German pastors who had been forced to subsist on Mein Kampf for over a decade. As soon as Japan surrendered, native Christian leaders requested an immediate shipment of 100,000 Nipponese Bibles, and now 500,000 New Testaments and 400,000 Gospel portions have been sent through American contributions. One World, One Book--this is the philosophy...
...Life. Government files contain reports on the miseries of Lota-its mine galleries reaching out under the sea, its underhoused town, its undernourished children. One of the reports says that no Chilean family can subsist on less than 65 pesos ($2.60) daily. But 33-year-old Juan Soto, a typical miner, who has dug Lota's coal for 16 years, gets 30 pesos for an eight-hour day's work. Neither he nor his wife and three small children remember having ever bought cheese or fruit, but they do get some milk...