DEFENSE: It Is Later Than You Think

Last week scholarly Dr. Edward Mead Earle—World War I veteran, distinguished diplomatic historian, professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study —crammed into a letter to the New York Times the urgent thoughts that many a citizen has been thinking about U. S. Defense. Excerpts: "The United States must be prepared immediately to defend with its own resources, alone and unaided, not only continental United States but all, or considerable portions, of the Western Hemisphere. . . . We must proceed on the assumption that we shall have to go it alone. We cannot afford the luxuries of business as...