THE NATION: The Surest Way

Said Maryland's Democratic Senator Millard Tydings, combat officer and D.S.C.-man in World War I:

"It may be that in the course of wanting to survive we may do more than we have to do. That is the surest way to survive. But the surest way not to survive is to do less than we have to do.

"The emphasis, in this time of world peril, has been on doing as little as we thought we could do to meet the situation."

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