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...Present cultural units should be preserved with the utmost care and should have full autonomy in all local affairs. This means that a country such as Switzerland, Holland or Hungary should be preserved intact with its present boundaries, unless the people themselves in compact geographical blocks desire a change. If some country, such as Belgium, is troubled by friction between two sections with different cultural systems, each of these, if it so desires, should be given autonomy. The decision should rest with the individual cultural groups. Autonomy . . . does not mean complete independence. The day for completely independent small political units...
Although Gandhi wants Allied troops to remain in India (TIME, July 13), he believes that immediate political independence is of the utmost importance for India's defense. On this subject, Jawaharlal Nehru made a shrewd psychological point last week. Said he: "Submission to England develops a spirit of submission...
...India into a united nation in the 3rd Century B.C. He was "the only military monarch on record who abandoned warfare after victory." He also popularized Buddhist vegetarianism. After consolidating all India except the southernmost tip, Ashoka remorsefully swore off war, and ruled "for thirty-eight years, trying his utmost to promote peacefully the public good. He was always ready for public business 'at all times and at all places, whether I am dining or in the ladies' apartments, in my bedroom or in my closet, in my carriage or in my palace gardens...
President Conant last night blue-printed a gigantic scheme for more democratic education and military training, to increase the potential officer field to its utmost and to approach "the ideal of a nation without caste...
...highest taxes in history: a limit on individual incomes to $25,000 a year (after taxes); a draining away of business profits to the "utmost limit consistent with continued production...