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...Gibraltar Policy. Herbert Hoover would pull out of Korea, send no more U.S. forces overseas except to a limited cordon of Pacific and Atlantic bases, build the Western Hemisphere into "the Gibraltar of Western Civilization" and wait the Russians out. Senator Taft would include several more bases than Hoover (e.g., North Africa, perhaps Malaya and Spain), and honor the U.S. commitment to fight if a North Atlantic ally is attacked. But he would fight by sea and air, not on land...
...year schedule means that basic courses have to be repeated over and over again, that instructors will find themselves giving the same course three times in a row, and quite probably that the number of courses offered will have to go down. Harvard is going to try to pull itself through the fretful days of mobilization without accelerating--President Conant's recent report indicates that any quickening of a student's program will come through the present machinery of two term. It means that a student can pack in more studies. It sounds like a far more sensible idea...
...Long Pull. Then he launched into a description of just how the U.S. was preparing to meet its responsibilities...
...would be a trillion dollars and the average family income would be $1 2,450. He expressed the conviction then that peace would be achieved not by arms but by an appeal to reason. Now, the future which he laid out was decidedly grey-a future of "the long pull." Said the President: "We do not know how long Communist aggression will threaten the world...
Unanimity Not Expected. He put the needs for the long pull into a ten-point legislative program: new military appropriations; extension and revision of the Selective Service Act; more foreign military and economic aid; "a major increase in taxes"; the means for increasing the number of doctors and nurses; new executive authority to expand production and to stabilize prices, wages and rents...