Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...modern world is filled with leaders who came from nowhere. What powers may or should be entrusted to leaders, and what the rules, regulations, conventions and understandings should be in a Democratic society is a problem for which a high level of sophistication and discrimination is required. The European solution seen in Naziism and Fascism is not an answer at all, but an avoidance or postponement of the answer. Despotism is no advance over the centuries of ancient tyranny...
...control of the continent." We cannot have such a peace because we can place no reliance on Hitler's word. Peace was attempted by Chamberlain and Daladier, and they failed. Events since Munich have served only to emphasize the untrustworthiness of Axis diplomacy. Mankind has faced this same problem at other times. The classic example is Napoleon. England signed a peace with him in March, 1802. That peace was formally breached fourteen months later, but it had never been a true peace. It was only a partial truce. Even if Hitler sincerely wanted peace, it is doubtful whether he could...
...this a problem which will face the United States in doubled degree when the war has ended. A demobilized army and the collapse of defense industries will make blacker and more dangerous the post-war unemployment picture. Work-camps may not be a solution; they are an attempt at an answer. To the practical experiments now being undertaken, Harvard owes it to Williams James to contribute...
John J. Anthony is a man of somewhat obscure antecedents, as are most of the problem wizards of the air. Manhattan-born, now 44, Mr. Anthony boasts that he has dabbled in law, studied psychology under Freud, claims that he holds three degrees from assorted universities. On the ground that he doesn't want to be looked upon as an academician, he refuses to divulge the names of his alma maters. He abhors the U. S. educational system. "It isn't," he remarks, "worth a goodgoddam...
Only once in his career has Mr. Anthony been compelled to cut a client off the air. That was when a judge from Pennsylvania got so worked up about his marital problem that he kept bleakly describing it in uninhibited language. The Good Will Hour dates from 1937, has been piped out of WMCA to an NBC network since early this year. Last fortnight it finished its 200th performance...