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YEARS OF WAR, 1941-1945; FROM THE MORGENTHAU DIARIES, by John Morton Blum, uses the detailed personal diaries of F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., to trace the career of that imperious New Dealer from 1941, when he organized a wartime fiscal-fitness program for the U.S. economy, through the 1945 "Morgenthau Plan" for emasculating and dismembering conquered Germany, which cost...
...home, at least two virulent former hawks, Senators Stuart Symington (D. Mo.), former democratic candidate for the presidential nomination, and Thruston B. Morton (R. Ky.), former national chairman of the Republican Party, are urging a change in policy...
YEARS OF WAR, 1941-1945; FROM THE MORGENTHAU DIARIES, by John Morton Blum, uses the detailed personal diaries of F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., to trace the career of that imperious New Dealer from 1941, when he organized a wartime fiscal-fitness program for the U.S. economy, through the 1945 "Morgenthau Plan" for emasculating and dismembering conquered Germany, which cost...
...vindicate race prejudice." Undeniably, racial prejudice is social or cultural in origin rather than biological, and it is understandable that anthropologists, who hesitate to make value judgments on the basis of biological fact, would hesitate also to enter what is fundamentally a sociological-and highly emotional-controversy. Anthropologist Morton Fried says that "participation in a 'debate' over racial differences in intelligence, ability or achievement potential is not participation in a scientific debate at all. It means lifting in the public eye the status of studies otherwise disqualified and rejected by science." Interpreted one way, such studies apparently suggest...
Physical differences are variations on the universal human theme. All men are different. But all men are also alike; the similarities outnumber the differences, says Morton Fried, on the order of 95 to 5. During man's nomadic residence on earth, a continuum reaching back 2,000,000 years, he has indiscriminately mingled with his own kind, thoroughly scrambling his genes. It may be possible one day to unscramble the human genetic omelet. Until then, group distinctions decreeing one race's superiority over another must necessarily be made on nonbiological lines. With only a few dissenting votes...