Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of U.S. foreign relations was somewhat erratic last week. It was hopelessly inept and confused on the problem of Palestine. But, by & large, the nation kept its eyes pretty well fixed on the main goal, which was peace, not war-but readiness...
...Egyptian littoral, General Omar Bradley, Army chief of staff, lectured Congressmen on the problem of maintaining a hypothetical 20-group air force within "effective" striking distance of Russia. A minimum of seven divisions would be needed to protect the base from overland attack by massed armies. The ground troops alone-to say nothing of 125,000 Air Force officers and men-would require 12,500 tons of supplies daily. Movement of this tonnage from the U.S. and protection of this one base from sea attack would involve a major naval force...
Manganese & Chrome. The problem, however, was not quite that simple. Neither was it quite as acute as it might have seemed at first glance. Actually, only five -not 60-Russian ships had sailed from New York since Jan. 1; only 13 had sailed from all U.S. ports. Russia had all but ceased to use her shipping route between Vladivostok and Puget Sound...
Strongly influenced by the 16th Century mystic, Jakob Boehme,* Berdyaev made the cornerstone of his philosophy the concept of what he called "metaphysical freedom." He regarded creativity as man's highest expression of that freedom. Man cannot truly be redeemed, he thought, until he submerges even the problem of his own salvation in creative activity-artistic, intellectual, or in human relations...
...problem for Americans is how to make the second alternative more likely than the first, and the third more likely than the second. Almost certainly, in those ten years, some Americans will die fighting -perhaps a few score, possibly millions. Almost certainly, billions of dollars will be poured out. There will be no safe course-only choices between dangerous courses...