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While agreeing on economic grounds, Taylor denied the political practicality of holding down wages, since legislators could "give workers no guarantee that their incomes would maintain their position relative to employers' profits or price rises...
...imports would have to go under strict Government control. Government would have to lay an even heavier hand on private industry. The U.S. would have to learn to produce as Germany did under Hitler, and figure out a way to keep individual freedom. The U.S. would have to maintain a huge armament program. (But after all, the General told himself: "Hitler ... is mortal and he'll die some day. The way to tame a rebel is to make him rich and then he becomes conservative and settles down.") The net, as the General cast it up: retention of "most...
...Ground. The doctrine of U.S. isolationism has a long and honorable past. To be sure American independence was won with the aid of a European ally (France), and several times the U.S. invaded European waters to maintain the freedom of the seas...
...next move is up to the House masters. They alone have the power to abolish the current system, which is irritatingly outdated now that the standard rate prevails. Some sort of investigation seems to be the only fair answer to the hapless students who maintain that a greater amount of liberty would lessen "that restricted feeling...
Last fall your newspaper published an interview with myself (Friday, October 18, 1940). The attitude of friendliness I then expressed towards this country I maintain now also. Perhaps few people believed me then that I was sincere in saying that my country is friendly towards yours. But events proved that I was right. Today my people is sacrificing far more than has any other during this war, in the cause of democracy...