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...dictum was never more valid than in 1947, when, as seldom in history, the world's military strength was divided between two great powers. Could Marshall depend on Eisenhower, his Air Forces and his Army to make it clear that the U.S. is "at all times ready for war?" Three years ago, on Dday, facing the coast of Normandy, Ike Eisenhower commanded the mightiest military force of men, guns, ships, and planes in history, and most of it was U.S. strength. Not even the most extreme of U.S. military now contend that the U.S. should still have such...
History shows that political freedom and economic progress depend upon diffusion of power and multiplication of foci of energy and drive-neither attainable under collectivism...
Workers who were once beholden to their bosses were not much more than industrial serfs, says Boyer. They lived in fear and depended on the big smile and the well-shined shoe for their future. Now they depend on their union, which means that they depend on themselves. This change in the workers' mentality is the democratic dynamic of our time. Some day historians will note the change, and this skillfully written book will be one of their sources...
...Good manners, in a democracy, indeed anywhere, depend on a sympathetic understanding of all sorts and conditions of men. [Too many] graduates of our spiffy schools . . . do not have manners, they have only a manner . . . . Our high schools, particularly where there is no racial segregation, are our most effective training schools in democracy. . . . The truths of democracy are not difficult to understand. They are only difficult to practice...
Whether the bill would bring peace to industry remained to be seen. New rules would provoke new challenges, raise new questions, require new interpretations. Their workability would also depend on labor's political power and on the economic atmosphere. Whether the amendments were practical, as the Wagner Act was not, would have to be determined pragmatically. Lawyers got ready for a field...