The ghastly cost of all-out war, now and for generations to come, bit deep and sharp into the awakening consciousness of the U.S. last week. Passed by the House was an $8,243,839,031 national-defense appropriation bill. When approved by the Senate and signed by the President, it will bring the U.S.'s already foreseen defense cost in World War II to $68 billion more than two and a half times the military cost of World War I.
Still to come is Franklin Roosevelt's expanded Victory Program, reportedly to be announced within the month. A group of defense officials last week finished mulling over...
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