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...deeply toward the root of the question. Stalin and the force which he controlled could stop, start again, turn, twist, dissemble and maneuver. Stalin & Co. were as far as men could be from the compulsive Wagnerian frenzies that had launched Hitler upon the world and swept him to his doom. Stalin & Co.'s evil and their power were of the mind, not of the emotions. Their calculations were as cold as the Volga in February, as dry as a page of Marx. Stalin & Co. might, in a sense, be mad; but they played excellent chess...
...some of the old Maginot Line thinking, of the superiority of the defense, and the delusion of security at cut rates. But the fact was that while the Army still had no atomic artillery under test, it did have some fine new weapons, including some that might spell the doom of the dreaded tank. Beneath all of last week's sales talk, though it was so conceitedly ebullient as to raise suspicions of overselling, the hum of scientific progress in weaponeering was real, and the best news in months...
Worldly Wise Man. By deserting the Boers' historic trek and devoting half his book to life among the Matabele, Author Abrahams sacrifices continuity but hones both sides of a worthy theme: men of all races are brothers who seal their own doom when they resort to violence. "It is not only our people who are in darkness . . . who are made drunk by words and blood," declares a Matabele wise man with philosophical worldliness. "It is so everywhere, among all the nations . . . So mourn not . . . for the Matabele. If you must mourn, mourn for our world that is in darkness...
...chief consequence of this wave of headline after headline about Doom and Utter Destruction, of One-Night Wars and the horrors that lie in atomic destruction, is this: a growing sense of confusion and helplessness among our own people. And hopelessness and helplessness are the very opposite of what we need. These are emotions that play right into the hands of destructive Communist forces...
...loud voice of doom was heard in the land last week. It belonged to Montgomery Ward & Co.'s hard-bitten Chairman Sewell Avery, who has been preparing for disaster for the last three years. To the stockholders of U.S. Gypsum, which he also heads, Avery reported that the company had salted away $55 million in cash reserves. Warned Avery: "The thing that hit us in 1929 cannot be assumed not to happen again. Personally, I have been waiting for years for the ax to fall. I am becoming more convinced momentarily that the time is not far away...