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With these reduced resources, Stalin tackled his problem, trying to pick abler leaders for his Army, trying to improve its resistance, trying to maintain the morale of his underfed people, trying to extract more aid from his Allies and to get them to open a second front...
...problem in terms much like those which the U.S. Navy uses on the same subject. Said Tojo: "The success or failure of southern reconstruction [in the conquered Pacific areas] depends chiefly ... on the efficiency of water transportation. . . . Japan does not have surplus vessels, for Japan must maintain transportation within the extensive area of the Greater East Asia sphere, while she must [also] continue her gigantic [war] operation, continuously fighting one decisive battle after another." In other words, U.S. attacks on Japanese merchantmen, cruisers and destroyers have hit Japan at her weakest point...
...have a dual problem. We must maintain our already huge establishment. Secondly, we must further expand it. The process of expansion itself immobilizes a million men: the men in training, the trainers, the service and medical troops and other overhead, the officer-candidate schools and various specialist schools. As we get toward the end of our expansion program, we will be able to plow back this overhead into replacements for the fighting forces...
Britain-as virtually all economists agree-has to maintain a thriving foreign trade. Ever since World War I, Britain with her high taxes has been moving in the direction of a high-cost economy, which makes it harder & harder for her to sell goods overseas. Before World War II Britain's exports (including her income from shipping) had already fallen behind her imports and her income from foreign investments. She was living on her capital (the sale of gold, and securities...
...Beveridge plan weighs Britain down so that she cannot maintain her trade, her people will face want, social security or no. They might avoid it if the U.S. continued Lend-Lease aid, thereby in effect assuming the cost of the plan. Or they might avoid it by export subsidies, barter agreements and other devices such as Germany used before the war-thereby colliding head on with U.S. policy, which has been steadily heading toward freer world markets...