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Show Geographic Isolation and Unpreparedness Do Not Bring Safety to the Nation Today By JOHN HAYS HAMMOND Neither geographic isolation, political inotlensiveness, nor military unpreparedness have availed to assure a nation's integrity against the exi- geneies of modern warfare. Under the present deplorable condition of international relations, however much we may be opposed to huge armaments and armed peace, we must recognize the necessity of maintaining adequate national defense to escape the humiliation of China or the agony of Belgium |