Word: realpolitik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia, and special loans to Finland, as unneutral--an apparently paradoxical stand. Yet this stand is not a unique paradox it represents a fundamental dualism in the thinking of American liberals. These people idealistically believe in morality in international relations; but they are aware of the fact that Realpolitik, not Christian brotherhood, governs the world today...
...political job. With Chinese politics what they are, and Confucius the cautious kibitzer he was, he was 50 years old before he found one, as governor of a province. Besides giving the province the best government it had ever had, he also astonished his disciples as a master of realpolitik. His good-government policy was simple. He merely designated the following as capital crimes: robbery, an ugly disposition, stubbornness, stupidity, lying. But even the cause of good government could not triumph over his grudge against women. When his lord took to giving more attention to a harem of 80 dancing...
...with the post-War Bohemianism of Mexico City he describes, Greenwich Village during the same period seems as innocent as a kindergarten. Mexico City swarmed with shady refugees from Europe, was headquarters for big plotters like the fabulous Russian Borodin (alias Ginzberg), with whom Beals used to quarrel over Realpolitik and eugenics. Borodin, claims Beals, invited him to participate in a plot to recover a million dollars worth of Tsarist jewels which he had lost to a double-crossing German revolutionist in Haiti. Pugilist Jack Johnson, a favorite of the carousing Mexican generals, gave Beals a $20 donation to start...
...shamelessly. . . . Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." First step in the right direction, says Huxley, is to stop whoring after the false gods of Fascism and Communism, heed those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity (except in its "extravagant asceticism .. . brutally cynical forms of realpolitik"). Most modern morality and social philosophy will have to go. In their place, men shall substitute such proverbs as: "All that we are ... is the result of what we have thought. . . . Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know...
...RAPE OF AFRICA-Lamar Middleton-Smith & Haas ($3). Brief, graphic study in the European realpolitik ("60 years of duplicity and chicanery") that has partitioned Africa among six land-greedy nations; with the suggestion that the crisis over Ethiopia is only a beginning...