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industrial structure and probably the adoption of stringent
government control over business. It can also hardly be doubted
that the victorious powers would endeavor to destroy our morale
by boring form within. This would necessitate the initiation
of counter measures that would restrict severely the liberty
of the individual and the press.
In short, America, alone in a jealous and hostile world, would
find that the effort and cost of maintaining "splendid isolation"
would be such as to bring about the destruction of all those
values which the isolation policy had been designed to preserve.
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