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...Bullitt, is advance man with trial-balloon speeches; and Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. has long been assigned the problem of the U.S. ultimate peace aims-which he has boiled down to three words, "Peace without empire." And the President is coming more & more to depend on two ex-bankers Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, now on a mission to London, and Robert Abercrombie Lovett, ex-banker, now Assistant Secretary...
This month's issue of Harvard's most lively magazine is adequate, if not brilliant. But whether you like it or not should depend even more than usual on whether or not you agree with its general point of view...
...vice chairman, National Defense Mediation Board] as saying, "When you pass compulsory legislation you make the workingman a slave, and there is no use producing defense materials for a nation of slaves, because if there is anything certain in history, it is that a national establishment which has to depend on slaves to produce its materials is inevitably destroyed...
...agree. But I would like to know why the same does not apply to the conscription of young men in order to use those defense materials. If they are drafted and paid slave wages, then they are slaves. And a national establishment which has to depend on slaves to do its fighting for it "is inevitably destroyed...
...President Edward L. Shea said in announcing North American's decision, the price it gets for its holdings will depend on how soon SEC makes him sell out, on what kind of market exists during this period, on how closely SEC regulates his liquidating sales. But there is no question that the company has plenty of value. It is the richest of the big utility systems. It is also one of the few with sizable earnings for its common stock ($1.92 a share in 1930). Its holdings (like Detroit Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric) are among the best...