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War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.

Walter Millis

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Walter Millis
Age: 69 †
Born: 1899
Born: March 16
Died: 1968
Died: March 17
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