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...against Europe's dark backward and abysm of wars and revolutions, America was still a New World with its own democratic New Order still evolving. In an historic sense nothing very profound had as yet happened to America as a result of the war. But something had happened to Britain-something which jolted England's No. 2 churchman (with his colleague and superior, Dr. Temple) into viewing the war as not merely a struggle for survival between two political power groups, United Nations and Axis, but also as a symptom of a social disease so virulent, long-standing...
...economy. As an early bird measure, it bore the now strange title of a "post-defense" program. Its aim: to restore Massachusetts' once-privileged industrial position. Its board members knew that if New England insisted on standing "where she always stood," she would be standing still or going backward. Short-sighted Yankee businessmen had lost their factories to the South and West because newer plants had better machinery and cheaper labor. The Governor's planners have what is perhaps the best state-sponsored program in the nation...
...sizable sums for a MacArthur-for-President movement.) Childs summed up: "The influence of the Tribune in politics is largely negative. [The Colonel] shows no signs of being an ogre. It is silly to build him into a super-Führer. To find security he is marching backward into the past...
...commonplace that Russian collectivism originated in a country which was in a backward phase of technical and political evolution. It is also, and conspicuously, true that it originated in a country which was in a backward phase of linguistic evolution. . . . There is no royal road to fluency in a language which shares the grammatical intricacies of Sanskrit, Lithuanian, or Russian. It is therefore impossible to give the reader who wishes to learn Russian any good advice except to take the precaution of being born and brought up in Russia. . . . Shortcomings of the Russian language . . . signify . . . the existence of a powerful...
Professor Becker knows that the problems of international cartels, jangling currency systems, the dangers of economic security v. political independence will remain with us for years to come. We will have "imperialism" of a sort, for small and backward nations need capital that is owned by the big fellows. The status quo ante will be restored in many instances, simply because a war-weary world will follow the lines of least resistance. China, for example, may object to Britain's presence in Singapore. Yet the fact that China has no navy demands the presence of Western naval power...