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...side of the scales" you say: "we will be adding millions of men to the carnage; we will pour wealth and resources down the drain; we will be opening the doors to fascism internally which may destroy the very freedom that interventionists would have us go abroad to defend...
...Belgium is determined to defend herself, knowing that her cause is the cause of right, and therefore invincible...
...fascism which, drawing on the unemployed and others in America who are not participating in the benefits of our democracy, and feeding on the new spirit of force which war brings with it, may destroy the very freedom which interventionists would have us to go abroad to defend. That is the war-side of the scales...
...social and economic systems to meet the needs of a free industrial America as they have never yet been met; we can strengthen our defensive arms--developing the navy, the air force, anti aircraft protection, and a reserve of needed minerals and materials through stock piling-- preparing to defend this country and this hemisphere if at any future time that becomes necessary; we can arm in this way, confident that defensive arming involves no such militarization of our civil life as is entailed in preparing for offense, with its huge conscript army and conscript economic life; and we can cultivate...
Easiest short-term remedy for coal's ills is enforced price-fixing. But last week, as the Interior Department's Bituminous Coal Division was readying its first schedule of minimum prices, Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson had to go before the U. S. Supreme Court to defend the act on which they were based. Its attacker: Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co., which 1) objected to classification of its "Arkansas anthracite" as soft coal, 2) argued that in any event the Bituminous Coal Act was an illegal delegation by Congress of its legislative power...