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...suggested a plan of "deterrent" power that hinted at something less than U.S. garrisoning of Western Europe: 1) build up "enough economic and political vigor, enough military strength" around "the captive world" to withstand Communist aggression by civil war "or even by satellite attacks"; 2) hold unswervingly to the Atlantic Treaty's promise to fight Russia if she started all-out war-but keep the freedom to counterattack wherever & whenever the U.S. thought it would do the most good...
Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller's Enemy is a shortened, sharpened, slanged-up version, with some new blood replacing the old, flaccid, translator's English. And Fredric March plays Stockmann with helpful vigor. But Miller has given the play a more agitated but less striking face. His version is not so much bitter satire as topical melodrama (with some of the new blood smeared on the characters' foreheads). It is not so much an affirmation of minority rightness as a plea for minority rights; it suggests a man persecuted less for telling the unpalatable truth than...
...this reflected some of the lingering doubts inside Harry Truman's own Administration on the wisdom of a total commitment now to a garrison state. Partly, the apparent caution merely recognized the inevitable lag between intent and performance. With Charlie Wilson on the job, more rigors and more vigor could be expected. On performance, not alone on words, would the U.S. be able to judge how well Harry Truman and the rest of the nation understood the urgency of his own words: "The future of civilization depends on what we do-on what...
More Rigors, More Vigor. Even without the formal proclamation, the President had most of the powers necessary for severe mobilization. Some had been given to him by Congress since Korea, others had been put on the books before or during World War II and remained in effect because the state of war with Germany and Japan has never been ended. The proclamation was intended to be a rallying cry at home and a notice to the rest of the world that the U.S. would once more rise to its calling as democracy's arsenal...
...Truman has reached toward mobilization in a more traditional fashion, through the regular Cabinet departments. So far in 1950, there are no home-front czars and caliphs grinding out firm and final decrees to a wage-stabilized, price-controlled, rationed public. But there is also a noticeable absence of vigor and purpose in the U.S. mobilization program, and in most of the men running it; there are no Charles E. Wilsons, "Bull" Jeffers, Bill Knudsens. These are the men who have been trying to catch up to galloping reality with a creeping mobilization...