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...four or five light meals a day instead of three big ones; keep weight down; avoid cathartics...
...Avoid arguments, worry, salt water, Turkish baths...
...even assuming that the Services, Government and large-scale public works can employ as many as 8,000,000 men (and that some 4,000,000 men & women stop working), U.S. private industry, including agriculture, will have to find useful jobs for some 50,000,000 men & women, to avoid "intolerable" unemployment. The postwar breadline may run up to 15,000,000 if the U.S. merely returns to where...
...such a world, there would be four dominant nations: the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, England in its far-flung British Commonwealth, Russia in Europe, China in the Far East. Each would try to prevent warfare in its own sphere and avoid conflicts with the rest. If they joined in any sort of international organization it would be loose and informal. They would try to postpone another war -but would never ascend to such idealism as thinking of World War II as a war to end wars...
Would Germany want such a peace? Almost every German today must know that Germany's only way to avoid total defeat, Germany's only chance for victory, is a deal with either Britain-U.S. or with Russia. The Free German Committee sponsored by Moscow (see p. 24) wants a strong, independent, democratic-capitalistic Germany; it says Germany must have an army. So far the only British-U.S. offer to Germany is "unconditional surrender," AMGOT occupation, the threat of dismemberment. Given the choice between a super-Versailles from the west, and peace along the long eastern front...