Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There will be no clear guide post to reconstruction. The governments that claimed to be revolutionary will have failed as much as they insist that the older forms of government failed. "I do not believe that new appeals to hatred stand the slightest chance. . . . There is disillusionment even with hatred. . . . We were taught to hate autocracy and militarism; and the hatred proved sterile ... in the name of social reform, we were asked to indulge class hatred . . . underneath the whole tangle of forces which has produced the present disaster, there is beginning to be a complete rejection of the whole thesis...
...contribution has been to try to free choked channels of trade, "keep the lines of peace open," prepare for post-war dislocation. U. S. strength: the "tremendous picture of the possibilities of peaceful life" that the U. S. offers. U. S. weakness : that U. S. economy, if not readjusted internationally, will no longer mesh with war-created economics overseas. The answer: "To you all things are possible; all questions have answers; all wrongs can be righted; all hopes can be fulfilled." Specific Berle prods to youthful imaginations: international health units working together in devastated areas; international transport pools moving goods...
...first large shipment of medical supplies from the American Red Cross reached Helsinki (ten ambulances, 123,496 dressings, 2,000 sheets, operating gowns, tents, drugs, clothing), the New York Evening Post's ambulating Columnist W. L. ("Young Bill") White took occasion to explain to his fellow Americans what the Finns think of them. Wrote...
This week's Saturday Evening Post marked the return of Richard Sherman '28 into that magazine's limited group of contributors...
...long time I've been getting post cards requesting me to print a list of what are the ten "best swing records." Quite frankly, I don't want to stick my neck out to the extent of doing this. Human tastes are extremely variable and therefore record fans spend a major portion of their time fighting about what is best...