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...this, while intended and designed to strengthen freedom's defense," he says, "carries within itself the very germs of freedom's destruction. For it etches the pattern to a military state which, historically under the control of professional military thinking, in constant search for means toward efficiency, has found in freedom possibly its greatest single impediment ... To avoid this historic pitfall it is essential that civilian control over the citizen army be extended and intensified. Particularly is this true in the administration of the program of Universal Military Training, if the youth of our land is to avoid...
...Soviet pattern now seems to be at work in China. In 1946, the peasants in Shansi province, in the northwest, were among the first in China to be violently communized: landlords were liquidated and everything was divided equally, not only the land but hoes and scythes. Even farm animals were slaughtered so as to be divisible. Last week Mao Tse-tung's Reds made public a study of what happened to 600 Shansi peasant families in five villages during five years of agrarian reform. The report was full of standard propaganda touches-"Drowning of girl babies has stopped...
...from it. The report notes admiringly: "Some peasants have undertaken to adopt the pattern of an agricultural cooperative. Under this system the land would be collectively cultivated and the produce distributed according to the members' contribution of labor and land." Obviously, the 42.3% of the peasants who still prefer to "work by themselves" and "yearn for the capitalist way of getting rich" might profitably remember what happened to the Russian kulak...
...first illusion to vanish was that Russia is irresistible. Russia may be strong militarily, and ready to launch a blitzkrieg on the German pattern, but I do not believe she could again - and this time without Lease-Lend aid - mount anything like a sustained offensive...
...behavior pattern first synthesized by British Humorist Stephen Potter in his classic manual, subtitled "The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" (TIME, Sept...