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Aircraft's increasing ranges have changed the old concept of world air trade out of all knowledge. Most of the world's worthwhile trade territory, except for South America, lies in the Northern Hemisphere. The shortest way to points in that hemisphere is by Great Circle routes. All these routes go over the top of the world (see map), where airmen have already demonstrated they...
...fundamental question Miss Thompson poses is "whether the world shall be governed by one or two nations, exploiting it in their own interests, or mutually governed by all for the welfare of all." This question, which presupposes that men's choice will be World Commonwealth (as revolutionary a concept as a real belief in the brotherhood of man), is the question which Americans must ask and then face. Says Miss Thompson...
Early Confidence. Civilization is a word that has only recently come into common use. As a concept it dates only from Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, who in 1791 united the idea of progress with the thought of history embracing the multitudes of men (and not merely their leaders). Early Americans, with their revivals of two ancient words, "republic" and "democracy," had anticipated the philosophy of Condorcet. They accepted the idea of civilization with an enthusiasm that still rings through their works and shames all but a few of later commentators...
Leading the issue is Harold J. Laski's devastating criticism of the complacent "leave-it-until-we-win" school of thought. "The eminent English political scientist pulls no punches in charging that American and British Tories have a static conception of victory. Laski holds that the Nazi revolution can be permanently defeated only by stronger revolutionary idea, and that the promise of an economy of plenty is the only truly revolutionary concept which the United States has to offer. Plenty, however, is to Professor Laski manifestly impossible in a set of economic institutions best fitted to profit-yielding scarcity. Changing...
...Luce thinks that pre-Army days are carefree ones for college students, then he hasn't been on a university campus recently. If he thinks that the planning and the preparation are all being done by those past military age, then he hasn't a clear concept of what the War means to America's universities. And if he thinks that undergraduates are as uninterested in their country's struggle as his article indicates, then his faith in our future is based on a pretty slim thread...