Lewis v. Anderson

YANKWICH, District Judge.

Wars have never actually terminated on the day “cease-fire” orders were given. Many of them continued for decades, not so much in the form of actual fighting, but in the disruption and dislocation which they caused in the life of the nations involved. These facts, which are truisms to any student of history, apply especially to modern warfare, as exemplified by the last war. The destruction and the dislocation of the economic life of both the victor and the vanquished continue and will continue for years after the actual hostilities with Germany and Japan ended. And…