Foreign News: Greybeards Forward!

"A middle-aged man can drive a tank as well as anybody. In the next war the oldest people should drive the fastest mechanized units. Greybeards should constitute the storm troops.

"The loss of our finest young men in battle is biologically more serious than would be the loss of an equal number of middle-aged people. If the employment of young men in war were prohibited—as the employment of young people in various dangerous occupations already is prohibited—then we should be acting with race-conscious logic.

"In war youth should take control of the home...

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