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...Bring out of the present agony a happier and juster world than man as yet has known...
...Japanese might have been happier had he heard the ominous prediction of Congressman John M. Coffee that "there will be an attack on the Alaskan mainland, British Columbia or the Pacific Northwest before the end of summer." By week's end public clamor and military silence had grown so great that the Senate Military Affairs Committee decided to send out its own scouting party, headed by Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, to find out what was really happening in unhappy Alaska...
London presents a far happier picture of well-contented men. Officers are inundated with posh invitations in their spare time. Said one, after dining with several titles: "Aren't there any plain people around here?" A most touching letter from a North England elderly widowed miner offered "to share my bed with a Pittsburgh miner." When the London Daily Express printed a box: Take an American Soldier Home to Tea on July 4th, the friendly British queued at headquarters extending invitations, expecting soldiers...
...much self-control (i.e., overconservatism) is as bad as too little; a good foreman must be cheerful, self-controlled, decisive; a good salesman is usually selfish and stubborn; tough guys make the best welders and combat flyers; a wide variety of types are successful as riveters; introverts are happier on assembly lines than extroverts...
...Friedrich has developed both a defense and a masterly vindication of the democratic idea as a regime for civilized man. In the holocaust, his words are calculated to pump new life into a fighting democracy. In the days to come they may well serve as the basis for a happier world...