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Nile Kinnick diary of service in the U.S. Naval Reserve Air Corps, January 1, 1943-June 1, 1943

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5/30 - Sunday Letter from Celia - nice surprise Diff bet. power politics & collective security against an aggressor? "Join the Army Air Corp & You will never Mind." "celebrates Sun. by not shaving." Sales in the South - must be a cheap luxury or a promise of cheap surcease from pain - eg. Coca-Cola & patent medicines. "Expanding rings from a rock thrown into a pond." "Here I go Again" "technological efficiency plus cooperative organization" "Men will choose wisely if they can choose freely." 5/31 - Monday "anonymous naughtiness" negative virtue "Boy with the Silver Wings" "punkin' in the oven" "pay with the ring of my money for the smell of your roasting goose." "Yesterday's Gardenias." Privilege without responsibility soon becomes tyranny. Poor whites in South feel vastly superior to the Negroes but have to compete on the same econ. level. This
 
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