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...house the Institute, the World Council had signed a five-year lease on the luxurious, 18th Century Château de Bossey at Céligny. ten miles from Geneva. In this elegant, vine-hung pleasure dome that once belonged to the brilliant Mme. de Stael,* 70-odd young men & women, selected as potential leaders, would study, think and talk Christianity...
Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, long the self-appointed primer of civil service's lush vine, suited his shears to the times. Noting that the vine had waxed during wartime until it bore 3,649,000 employes, he decided that it was too late for mere snipping. His proposal to the Senate: chop off all but 1,000,000 at a single slice, and send them back home...
...passed (and supposedly withering on the vine) were 75,000 Japs in the Carolines (two-thirds of them on Truk), 25,000 in the Philippines, 13,000 on four atolls in the Marshalls, 3,500 on Wake, 3,500 on Marcus, 2,500 on Rota in the Marianas, 20,000 in the Bonins...
...these islands every inch gained is costly. Even then progress cannot be measured in yards or miles gained along the twisting, rotting jungle paths; it can be measured only in dead Japs. On few of the islands are the Japs withering on the vine. They have to be knocked off. They have tremendous ammunition dumps and stockpiles of weapons, and they grow enough food themselves to get fatter and stronger than the Japs at home...
Wishbone-shaped Wake, scene of one of the Marines' heroic stands in the war's early weeks, had another last-ditch garrison aboard. But no one went to rout them out. They were dying on the vine, as dozens of other bypassed garrisons in the Pacific were dying...