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...attack on the scale necessary to prove or disprove the assertion has never been tried. TIME does know, with all the world, that the Allies have no hope and no way of getting at the main German armies, in Russia or else where, with the strength necessary to destroy them this year. Everyone also knows that the cost of destroying German arms by land assault-next year or the next year or the year after that-will be beyond any price that man has yet paid at all his Armageddons...
Therefore, when the world was hit by depression, in democratic countries "the fatal mistake was made of attempting to tackle the problem from the angle of the producer. . . . The crowning absurdity was reached of governments subsidizing producers to produce goods which they then paid them to destroy...
Economically, the idea is wholly, sound, but politically considerations, may swamp it. Business men, concerned lest such concentration destroy the "good-will" value of their trade-marks and ruin the competitive position of the "squeezed-out" firms in trading after the war, are opposing the program as strenuously as is possible in wartime. Some of them have come around to approve the principle, but they insist that the application of it be left in their hands, much as were the old NIRA codes. They are willing to sacrifice so long as it doesn't hurt their post-war position...
...British claimed Gandhi's program of disruption called for: 1) closing shops to destroy public morale; 2) interference with telephone & telegraph lines; 3) fomenting strikes in munitions and war materiel factories; 4) interference with A.R.P. services; 5) dislocating transport; 6) a strike by lawyers...
...well is a deep, narrow, steel-lined hole in the ground. To destroy a well permanently, the steel casing must be damaged beyond repair, the shaft hopelessly plugged, or the oil supply itself dissipated. Anything else is temporary-fires can be put out, pumps and surface apparatus replaced...