Repository: UIHistories Project: Convocation - 1942 Winter-Spring [PAGE 41]

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th wh ur energies into creative tasks, that \\» are not pre pared, and will not be r me time, to excel in the arts of war. I entialh we are the "haves Actually we are the "have nots." Ou nemies, much poorer in r< urces, have the implements i' war and he i tinin e them. \ml w much richer in resources, arc onl) the beginning of the rearmament and the training of tin skills t < them. So then m be no < mplacency. It is a battle where time is n r I factor. There must be a complete subordination oi all our n i nal concerns to the great I sk of b oming pre] < d to de n<l. and then to assault. And in the ond place there must be a greater sense of realism ut the > rifices which will be required during the war and tin I ice that will follow. The lift) six billions which will be ask< I I r the President tomorrow when he presents his budget message, is .\\\ tner libit tsti -mi tl sum. It will cut into all oui ways oi life, Net it i >nlv a beginning. Far heavier demands will be made, The\ will at I the standards of our children's children, Indeed, I do not ex| t 1 that \ will ever live normally again, "normally ' in the sense that w < ui i :pec1 to have the easy comforts, the eas) securities, of the past 'iterations, rhere have been too man) mistakes, too mam blun lers, and the) must be paid for. In this 'un lion I think of a symposium in which I participated I an entry into the war. with our good friend, Dr, T. \ Smith

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