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Similar proposals have been made from time to time, but Admiral Yarnell's plan lias both scope and authority. He sees consolidation as the logical course after demobilization. He points out the unhappy position of aviation between the two stools of Army and Navy in the present setup. Says he: "Air power has become a determining factor in military operations . . . [yet] there have been cases . . . where naval air operations were directed by commanders with no aviation experience." Then he leapfrogs the separate-air-force zealots by recalling the "lamentable failure" of the R.A.F. "in its support of naval...
...from geography, from time and from the behavior of the enemy army, the Allies have been able to deduce certain hard facts. The world knows what the Germans took and how long they took to take it. The world has seen the German attacks decrease in scope and effect, has seen the Russians come back with ever-increasing power and effect...
...fecund roots of its greatness and power. ... A so-called civil progress would ... be unnatural which - either through the excessive burdens imposed, or through exaggerated direct interference - were to render private property void of significance, practically taking from the family and its head the freedom to follow the scope set by God for the perfection of family life...
...members of the community that in virtue of it the public authority can interfere with the evolution of that individual . . . decide on the beginning or ... the ending of human life, determine ... his physical, spiritual, religious and moral movements." This would mean "falling into the error that the proper scope of man on earth is society, that society is an end in itself...
...Even if the current offensive is only the first stage of a bigger one, the limited scope of the initial attack reflects the plight of the Wehrmacht. In 1941 its objective, along a 1,500-mile front, was to destroy the Red Army and seize the U.S.S.R. In 1942 the objective, along an 800-mile front, was to seize southern Russia and isolate Moscow from the rear and the south. In 1943 the Wehrmacht attacked on a 200-mile front, aiming at a town and at a portion of the Red Army...