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...were at my disposal out there were only operating at a fraction of their efficiency. They are, in effect, by being confined to the narrow area of the battleground of Korea . . . merely performing that function which would be regarded as tactical support of the infantry line. The great strategic concept of stopping the supplies to troops, of preventing the buildup of troops . . . the disorganization of transportation lines-all of the uses which . . . Navy and air are supposed to do-are not permitted over there...
...Concept. Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall wondered just what present U.S. policy in Korea was. He quoted a speech by Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk which said that the U.S. was trying to resist aggression and yet prevent a general war. What did the general think...
...This concept of somehow solving our problem in Korea by fighting elsewhere strikes me as part of a general overall fallacy--namely, the tendency to expect that we can get desirable results in Asia by the application of greater force. There is no question about the need of punishing aggression by force and being constantly prepared to use force against Russian and other Communist expansion as a general proposition...
...unfair that Harvard, whose motto is Veritas, has not adequately presented this aspect of reality." The issue of whether reality is adequately presented at Harvard is a matter of definition. the empirical definition of reality is based on objectivity, the United Ministry's on belief. Under the former concept, teachers for any course, including those on religion, should be hired according to their ability to teach. Their beliefs are no substitute for this ability, whether five thousand students agree with them...
MacLeish discussed his dual concept of the world, in which one accepts evil, but knows that man has absolute value, which is greater than the world's evil...