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...Wilsonian Refutation. For many readers the most provocative section of Author Lippmann's book will be the 13 pages in which he undertakes to refute Woodrow Wilson's international political principles. For not until the Wilsonian fallacies are cleared away can the U.S. achieve, or even formulate, realistic war aims...
That heritage has been variously expressed: it was expressed (though that statement was later repudiated) in the terms of Wilsonian idealism...
...Franklin Roosevelt is really determined to do, his planning with Congress, and thus with the people, he has avoided the second Wilsonian error. As for the third factor which wrecked Woodrow Wilson's 1919 dream-the desires and diplomacies of other nations-Franklin Roosevelt, the Congress and the people of the U.S. will still be dependent on factors beyond their immediate control...
...they signify understanding guidance for undeveloped nations directed towards their independence and self-rule. Another twenty years passed, and the Crimson watched Woodrow Wilson evolve and put into practice his "new free dom, "its promise of social betterment. Today the Crimson supports the New Deal, foreshadowed by the Wilsonian program and so similar in its aims and accomplishments. The greatest good for the greatest number, though it may require the abandonment of American "rugged individualism," though some traditions are swept away and some groups hard-hit, though the activities and power of the people's government are extended...
...outlined its main phases. The whole nature of the world order at present indicates that in the future liberty must be guaranteed by some sort of central planning for the welfare of the people. Yet our thought on the German revolution places us in heroic defense of antiquated Wilsonian principles of national sovereignty, free trade, and individualistic capitalism...