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...thoughts and things were split. The sudden achievement of victory was a mercy, to the Japanese no less than to the United Nations; but mercy born of a ruthless force beyond anything in human chronicle. The race had been won, the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures instead of dead matter created a bottomless wound in the living conscience of the race. The rational mind had won the most Promethean of its conquests over nature, and had put into the hands of common...
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...price of sudden peace would be high. This week, as the nation wondered how deep and how serious an economic wound would come from sharp cutbacks in war production , Washington made hasty plans and emergency estimates. The most hopeful guess of Government economists was that the worst might be over in six months. In those six months the war-swollen U.S. economy would suffer hard bumps...
Said Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnarn and Lawyer John Foster Dulles, speaking for the Federal Council of Churches: "If we, a professedly Christian nation, feel morally free to use atomic energy in that way, men elsewhere will accept that verdict . . . the stage will be set for the sudden and final destruction of mankind...
...Year After V-J Day. As N.C.B. suggested, the jolt from a sudden collapse of war work might not be as painful as most people have feared. Industry has prepared its own shock absorber. According to an industry-wide survey made by the Department of Commerce, U.S. manufacturers plan to spend some $4.5 billion for plant expansion during 1946. Expenditures by public-utility companies and the railroads may reach $1.5 billion. More than that, industry plans to pump out $2.8 billion to restock its depleted inventories of non-military goods. Civilians may spend as much as $100 billion for goods...