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...Government's normal bid-and-contract practice of buying commodities and services must give way to a system of allocations (used in the last war) that will avoid a multitude of priorities and sustain small business...
...larger significance attached to the argument over the way the pact had been presented to Congress. It was before the Senate not as a treaty, requiring a two-thirds majority in the Senate, but as a joint resolution needing only a majority. The Administration was taking this means to avoid almost certain defeat by isolationists, plus the risk of upsetting good neighborliness in a bruising give-&-take argument...
...Beveridge plan weighs Britain down so that she cannot maintain her trade, her people will face want, social security or no. They might avoid it if the U.S. continued Lend-Lease aid, thereby in effect assuming the cost of the plan. Or they might avoid it by export subsidies, barter agreements and other devices such as Germany used before the war-thereby colliding head on with U.S. policy, which has been steadily heading toward freer world markets...
...Avoid Danger...
...Army Institute is designed to avoid that danger by establishing a uniform method of teaching and testing soldiers and sailors...