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...people can govern itself. It may be that we will have to broaden the base of these assumptions in order to establish a more vigorous, functioning, cooperative society. It may be that we will have to consent to a loss of some personal liberties in order to preserve the basic liberty of choosing those who are to govern. We need men now who do not fear change and do not count the bookkeeping cost of reaching the goal we absolutely must reach-a strongly armed nation, and a working democracy. As TIME points out, Roosevelt...
...relative superiority of the defense over the offense appeared to be an established and basic fact...
...fact that the Germans were able to break the Belgian positions in two places-where, incidentally, they seemed to be strongest-and the 'Little Maginot Line,' is not simply an incidental surprise of this war. Its real meaning is that fundamentally our concepts of basic military facts are proved to be largely in error...
...Basic reasons: new alloy steels, vast technical advancement in construction and bridge theory (John Roebling did not even know the theory when he built his World Wonder). A big factor in modern bridge masterpieces is one Engineer John Roebling never heard about: the professional bridge designer and architect. To him must go substantial credit for creating modern bridges which begin to approach in delicate, aerial appearance what bridges have always stood for in men's imagination...
...cautioned: "We should not let our fear of the fifth column cause us to surrender to the sixth column, who would mistakenly use the fears of the people and the confusion of the hour to cause Americans to strike down the Bill of Rights and to surrender the recent basic social advances...