This Is Regrettable Indeed For A Nation

There Has Been A Strong Tradition In This Country That It Is Not The Function Of The Military To Educate The Public On Political Issues.

To Ask For Overt Renunciation Of A Cherished Doctrine Is To Expect Too Much Of Human Nature. Men Do Not Repudiate The Doctrines And Dogmas To Which They Have Sworn Their Loyalty. Instead They Rationalize, Revise, And Re-interpret Them To Meet New Needs And New Circumstances, All The While Protesting That Their Heresy Is The Purest Orthodoxy.

Power Tends To Confuse Itself With Virtue, And A Great Nation Is Peculiarly Susceptible To The Idea That Its Power Is A Sign Of God's Favor.

Some New Machinery With Adequate Powers Must Be Created Now If Our Fine Phrases And Noble Sentiments Are To Have Substance And Meaning For Our Children.

Educational Exchange Can Turn Nations Into People, Contributing As No Other Form Of Communication Can To The Humanizing Of International Relations. Man's Capacity For Decent Behavior Seems To Vary Directly With His Perception Of Others As Individual Humans With Human Motives And Feelings, Whereas His Capacity For Barbarism Seems Related To His Perception Of An Adversary In Abstract Terms, As The Embodiment, That Is, Of Some Evil Design Or Ideology.