Word: basically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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From Paris: It is the quality of U.S. leadership, not basic U.S. military strength, that has gone on trial in Europe's eyes since the Korean defeat. With the exception of the Gaullists of France, non-Communist Europeans generally have found MacArthur guilty of gambling the greater part of U.S. ground strength on his private political hunch that the Chinese Communists would not strike. Now they wonder whether the U.S. plans to involve itself still deeper against the Chinese on a hunch that Russia will not honor its mutual defense treaty with China. They wonder whether U.S. industrial capacity...
...basic argument rocked U.S. industry and Government last week. Should across-the-board price & wage controls be slapped...
...another development on the manpower question, Federal Security Administrator Oscar L. Ewing proposed Saturday that colleges accelerate their programs by eliminating summer vacations. He also asked that basic military training be included in high school curriculas...
...basic preparedness problem is to fully prepare "at the same time maintaining economic health," and a chief danger is psychological--public reaction to a cold war, as opposed to a hot war, can "most profoundly affect hours of work, rate of productivity, extent of voluntary savings, wage demands, strikes and labor slowdowns, and general public attitude toward controls and restrictions...
Earlier in its preface, the report said, "Ours is not merely a problem of having a given number of troops and a quantity of weapons available at any given moment, but of maintaining the basic capacity for whatever military operations may develop; nor is it so much a problem of peak effort and a swift culmination as of sustained readiness over a period of unknown and perhaps unknowable duration...