The war with China, if it comes, won't be a picnic

I WAS with some old friends before Easter at the 80th birthday celebration of a dear friend and deeply admired public official, and after the usual pleasantries, the conversation turned completely political. An important Cabinet official responded with good humor to his polite question, 'How are you?' I answered, 'Not bad, just a little better than the country, perhaps.' Thereafter, wherever I turned to, everyone else seemed to ask, 'What's wrong with our country?' No one dared to volunteer, 'What's right with it?'

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