问答题The staff got right to business and conferred all day. Victor Henry worked with the planners, on the level below the chiefs of staff and their deputies where Burne-Wilke operated, and of course far below the summit of the President, the Prime Minister, and their advisers. Familiar problems came up at once: excessive and contradictory requests from the British services, unreal plans, unfilled contracts, jumbled priorities, fouled communications. One cardinal point the planners hammered out fast. Building new ships to replace U-boat sinkings came first. No war material could be used against Hitler until it had crossed the ocean. This plain truth, so simple once agreed on, ran a red line across every, request, every program, every projection. Steel, aluminum, rubber, valves, motors, machine tools, copper wire, all the thousand things of war, would go first to ships. This simple yardstick rapidly disclosed the poverty of the arsenal of democracy , and dictated -as a matter of frightening urgency-a gigantic job of building new steel mills, and plants to turn the steel into combat machines and tools.

问答题偶然也会有一座小岛出现在地平线上，我们不知其名，但它却给人以神秘之感，那是海底峰峦的顶部，孤独、凄凉、无瑕、偏僻地矗立在海上。人们喜爱岛屿，是否因为在这难以驾驭的广大世界里有这样—叫块易于管理的领地，人们就不知不觉地要据为已有我想到那座岛屿一直就在那里(除非它只不过是耐心的珊瑚虫的作品)，并且倘若我返回发现它在等待着我时，这小岛还会仍然在原地不动。当我想到这些时，我就感受到一种奇特的情感。为什么会这样，我自己也说不清。

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