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This is what the inglorious process of "mopping up" can do to the foot soldiers who wield the mop. It is a process dirty, bloody and exhausting, not easily distinguishable from any other kind of warfare. In the Philippines, it still meant mud and C-rations, belly-tightening fear and dog-tired homesickness, shooting Japs and getting shot at-and getting killed...
...very large extent the specific recommendations made by our church groups have been given effect. The basic conception of Dumbarton Oaks was that a few great powers would wield overwhelming military might to repress violence. The nations represented at San Francisco found that conception unacceptable. A few feared that the Great Powers would in fact agree upon a use of force which unguided by moral principles would be oppressive and unjust. Many more feared that the five Great Powers would be unable to agree among themselves and that the Security Council would be impotent as an organ for action. This...
...realized by business, through its instruments: high employment and productivity. But business itself must first learn a new concept of freedom. It must learn and conform to the controls for freedom-e.g., reasonable Government regulation-within which it must act. In the same manner, those who wield the power over business for Government must also learn the controls which, by giving business its greatest freedom, can enable...
...Party's prospects are not bright. The best that he can hope for is that in a Parliament of many hues, the new N.S.C.A. will wield a potent bargaining power...
...will be draft-exempt. The demand for fighting men will be met even at the cost of some loss in war production. For, as General Hershey wapsodized in his monthly Selective Service bulletin: "Warriors win wars with weapons; but weapons will not win wars without warriors to wield them...