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Professor Sorokin states that the effect of the father draft will depend mainly upon the training which the drafted father had given his family. Showing that the loss of the head of the family will result "in weak families" in "demoralization, irreligiosity, even criminality," Professor Sorokin also says that "for good families . . . the draft will intensify and deepen moral stamina, religiosity, sense of duty and devotion...
...endless, abrasive eastern front, would be by no means unattractive to millions of Germans, even to some conservatives and some of the military. To the Nazis and to those tarred with Naziism, such a peace offered no hope. The question of how much it would offer to others would depend on what concrete terms Stalin would accept...
...development of equipment. . . ? What incentive would there have been for it to get up early and work late to develop its business? In the scales of American business, reasonable competition is good, it has made us strong and we want to keep it. We must continue to depend upon the strong yeast of competition to keep us growing...
...there was to be shipping competition between the U.S. and Britain in the peace. Sir Arthur was not afraid. "The share of the world's shipping business will not depend solely upon the amount of tonnage that happens to be under the flag of the different countries at the time when peace comes. It will depend on the competitive cost of building and the competitive cost of operations as well as on the policy of the different governments with regard to support and subsidy, and the general framework of international trade and agreement in other spheres. That being...
Kesselring had more vital matters to concern him. He could not depend upon the Italians at home or those in the field under General Alfredo Guzzoni, commander in Sicily. On occasion the Italians fought fiercely, gave up only when further combat was hopeless. But when they surrendered, they surrendered in crowds. As in North Africa, Italian soldiers and officers hated the Germans. Soldiers complained that the Germans took all the food; Italian airmen, that the Germans took the good planes and hangars...