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revolutionary change in the relations of man to the universe.”
“President, Leahy, JFB [Byrnes] agreed Japs looking for peace.
the atomic bomb would allow them to end the war without a clarification of the terms of unconditional surrender, and without Soviet intervention.
think that what is needed is something far subtler than the emancipation of the individual from society; it involves, with an awareness that the past one hundred and fifty years have rendered progressively more acute, the basic dependence of man on his fellows.”
“But in an ideal society, when you remove all the everyday frictions, the frictions that are created to take their place are so much more cruel.”
Robert’s role as a responsible American citizen had changed; but his deepest values were unaltered. “The
