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...Empire falls India will become a prey to less enlightened powers. After victory will come Dominion status. Behind this reasoning lies the cogent fact that one-fourth of Britain's overseas wealth is invested in this brightest jewel in her crown. "Two out of ten Englishmen depend on India," said Winston Churchill...
Preventive measures had already been pondered, including legislation flatly outlawing strikes. But any plan would depend, in the last analysis, on the attitude of labor. So far as defense activity was concerned, the most important attitude in labor was the one taken by a tall, grey-haired citizen of Pittsburgh named Philip Murray...
...going to do about defense?, Murray's answer is: What is industry going to do about labor? Both questions will soon have to be answered. With industry expanding and local labor shortages developing, labor will sit down at the bargaining table with new strength. A good outcome will depend on the reasonableness of all concerned...
...must warn you that today war and peace do not depend on small nations like Bulgaria. She is so small that she cannot dictate whether there shall be war or peace. We have therefore to be ready for any eventuality...
...materially needed commodities must take the place of a struggle for so-called favorable balance. . . . We must recover reverence for the earth and its resources, treating it no longer as a reservoir of potential wealth to be exploited, but as a storehouse of divine bounty on which we utterly depend...