POSTWAR: Limited Objective

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But the body cannot be healthy, no matter how active its cells, if the organization and functions of the whole are defective. And organization and function depend on many things beyond cellular health: the Government's economic and political policies, the people's own disposition towards spending and taxation, the nation's trade relations with the rest of the world.

Over these neither C.E.D. nor the individual business has any control. But C.E.D. hopes that its Research Division will propose such reasonable measures that the Government and the public will make it possible for business to carry out its good intentions.

<footnote>* Since C.E.D. is incorporated as a non-profit institution, it cannot do any direct lobbying, but must rely on giving other men what Hoffman calls "a post-graduate course in applied economics" so persuasive that they themselves will work to achieve it.</footnote>