Word: v-day
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...clock forward to V-Day. The German and Japanese military forces will by then have been subtracted. The answer again will be peace, peace in a world that will be at least one thousand billion dollars poorer in goods and equipment than the world of M-Day, poorer by perhaps fifty million men, women and children who might otherwise have survived...
...world of V-Day is no richer in applied wisdom than the world of M-Day, this further calculation can be made. There will be no way except charity to put Europe quickly back on its feet again. International charity must inevitably soon run thin. When the U.S., for one, ceases to give goods away it will suffer from unemployment, despite and because of its vastly expanded productive capacity. Moreover, European and Asiatic collapse will be on a far greater scale than they were when U.S. relief and financial first aid dried up in the early...