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What Price Glory? The U.S. was determined that it should not happen again. The fast-dwindling group of those who believed in preparedness wanted a National Defense Act to establish and keep the framework of an army, so that the next time the U.S. would be ready. Pershing was still busy in France; he sent Colonel John McAuley Palmer to give advice, and Palmer framed an act setting up stronger National Guard units, ROTCs, CMTCs and a Regular Army of 280,000 men. Pershing came home to testify before Congress. He wanted a democratic Army. This was a democratic Army...
...right of all peoples . . . must be safeguarded within the framework of collective security. The progress of undeveloped, colonial, or oppressed peoples toward political responsibility must be the object of international concern...
...will need to realize that it cannot safely relax into a simple alliance or loose confederation, made holier by lip service to democracy and dedicated to the maintenance of the status quo. It will have to find a framework for world order which, while keeping the peace better than before, permits change. It will have to find a framework which will make allowance for the fundamental U.S. bias toward freedom and growth for itself and for others...
...London: "His Majesty's Government . . . recognize the French Committee . . . as a body qualified to ensure the conduct of the French effort in the war within the framework of inter-Allied cooperation." The Generals: "sincere satisfaction...
...Burma, the Japs last week gave "independence." The gift came all tied up in pretty strings and boxed "within the framework of Japan's co-prosperity sphere": Lieut. General Masakazu Ka-wabe, Commander in Chief of Japanese forces in Burma, abolished his military administration; members of the "Burma Independence Preparatory Committee," established by the Japs six weeks earlier, were called to a meeting; the Committee quickly named itself a "National Assembly," and appointed wily, womanish Dr. Ba Maw Premier of Burma. It only remained for Ba Maw to sign a treaty of alliance pledging Burma to military, political...