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...chief organizers of the project--Assistant Professor William R. Sistrom--said yesterday that the scope of the new tutorial will be much more limited than that of the pre-war version. "In the old days, tutorial was for credit and for all", he exlained, "but apparently it did not work out to everyone's satisfaction, and the war was a convenient excuse to drop...
...there survived into the new pre-war period the diplomatic problems of the old pre-war period. But the assumptions of Versailles also survived, in the minds of Western statesmen (and, in a negative sense, in German minds too). And this was a tragedy; for as Germany proceeded fitfully toward recovery between 1919 and 1933, the Treaty's provisions became increasingly irrelevant. The best proof of this -- and one which Taylor discusses brilliantly -- is the reparations wrangle. If Germany were to "pay for her war," she could not recover, and a "recovery" (in the sense of achievement...
...like Dreiser and Dos Passos stayed close to the Party because it seemed that the Communists were one of the few outlets for serious social protest in the country. Since the First World War, political and cultural radicalism had followed separate paths in the United States; in more sentimental pre-war days, you could meet radicals from Max Eastman's Masses and Wobblies like Big Bill Haywood at Greenwich Village tango teas--and if there was something frivolous and arty about such political reformers, there was also a close identification on their part with cultural reform. Literature was an ally...
Volume Two is an account of the period 1950 to 1960 and covers the rise of McCarthy, Khruschchev's anti-Stalin speech, Hungary, Suez, Iraq, Quemoy, Sputnik and the Summits. From a careful examination of these events, their interrelation, and the pre-War period, Fleming says, "It is difficult to find evidence of any desire on the part of the Soviets to plunge into conflict with the West." The Cold War is made to seem a creation of the West; so too is the iron curtain. Fleming even relates the Hungarian Revolt to the forced armament of Eastern Europe following...
...trying to defend the corrupt administration of the pre-war Chiang Kai-shek government that, to a great extent, was responsible for the Communist takeover of the China mainland. But if I had to choose between two evils, I would choose the lesser...