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Depression touched everyone, and conquest rolled over 600,000,000 people, but the old continuing rhythms pulsed on, the cycles of the seasons, the plowing and planting, the teaching and learning, the hopes, the dreams, the thoughts, the desires and achievements, the poetry, the loves, the prayers, the ceremonies, the grand visions and the humble faiths of the people God made, so many...
When McKinley attacked "isolation," he spoke as an expansionist, admittedly a certain breed of internationalist. But the motives for his internationalism-"McKinleyism," as Edward Atkinson called it-were those of high-pressure minorities inspired by self-interest. McKinley's reciprocity was a weapon of economic conquest, a give-&-receive proposition in which we gave a hard left and received the purse...
...depends. The Russians feel that by accepting enormous losses, such as would take a generation or two to mend, they could crush Hitler alone. But they do not choose to do that. The Red Army, said Stalin's Order, was "not created for the purpose of conquest of foreign countries, but to defend the frontiers of Soviet land." The Russians intend to have some army left to fight the peace with, too. Therefore, if the Allies have not moved on the Continent by the time Russia restores her borders, Russia may stop there. The Allies' rate of progress...
...Russians themselves point to these promises as the definition of their war aims. Last week Pravda quoted Joseph Stalin's speech of Nov. 6, 1941: "We have not, nor can we have, such war aims as the seizure of foreign territories or the conquest of other peoples. . . . Our first aim is to free our territories and our peoples from the German Nazi yoke. We have not, nor can we have, such war aims as the imposition of our will and our regime on the Slavic and other enslaved peoples of Europe who are waiting for our help...
...China is weakened by a deadlocked war and fantastic inflation until it is forced into becoming a passive ally, the United Nations will face terrific odds in defeating Japan. Neither a strategy based on island-to-island conquest in the South Pacific, nor one based on the remote hope of being able to mount an attack via Rus-sian Siberia, is sound. (If Russia declares war, says Dr. Hsu, Japan can easily cut the lifeline of the Trans-Siberian railway, and has consistently kept an approximate 25% preponderance of troops facing the Russians.) Therefore United Nations strategy will call...