Because Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch has an almost mystic reputation as the Man Who Can Solve Anything, the Baruch Report issued last week was widely and wrongly billed as a complete postwar blueprint. This impression was reinforced by its sheer bulk: 120 mimeographed pages, 30,000 words, one pound.
But as Baruch himself put it: "I didn't cover all the world." The report is aimed at one target: to make sure that the short-term complications involved in converting U.S. industry to peace do not make the long-term job of winning the peace itself more difficult—or...
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