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...every front-line soldier knows, there is a vast difference between the number of men in uniform and the number who actually see combat. Last week Defense Secretary Marshall told just how big the difference is. For every 100,000 men under arms, he said, the U.S. can muster only 23,000 on the firing line. Russia, on the other hand, gets 80,000 combat soldiers out of every...
...more trained divisions subject to call. Though its population is growing (2,000,000 more now than in 1946), though its production stands higher (30% more now than in 1940), France now has only five divisions in Europe (plus some 20,000 Frenchmen engaged in Indo-China), will muster only ten divisions by the end of 1951, under NATO's plan. These ten divisions will require only 250,000 men. In fact, that many men are already mobilized in France. Calling up a single annual class of conscripts (without political exemptions) would raise another 200,000. The real limitation...
...alternatives: 1) keeping and cherishing the allies with whom it had stood before, or 2) going into the type of hemisphere isolation advocated by Joe Kennedy and many others still to be heard from. Alternative One called for all the powers that diplomacy, hard work and decision could muster. It had to be pursued as a task in operations, just as rearmament is a task in operations, and it had to be carried out without concessions on vital points, e.g.: abandonment of Asia to the Communists. Only if it failed would the second alternative be a choice, and it would...
Probably the only objection that Yale undergraduates can muster toward their gym is that it has only three-basketball courts, far too few in comparison with the abundance of everything else...
...referendum in exceptional cases, where widespread feeling demands, or when a petition signed by 200 students requests it, on any proposal concerned with student affairs," Meeting on October 29, the council decided to abolish the students' right to the initiative because it feared that any "crackpot" proposal could muster 200 signatures and that it would be swarmed under with unreasonable requests for referenda. It argued that the council was theoretically a responsible group and could exercise "common sense" on matters of public debate. This point of view, many observers felt, developed from a fear of future "abolish the council" drives...