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...Nieman Fellow may take a course for credit towards a degree of any sort. They therefore have no examinations to contend with, and from an undergraduate viewpoint, work in an unorthodox manner. A few lectures, considerable reading, dinners, and many conversations supply the bulk of their time. Lectures are not as popular as might be supposed; the men have not the time to follow a subject comprehensively through a series of lectures. They prefer instead to go off on their own and dig up the ideas in which they are particularly interested...
...United States are those who favor his policy of complete isolation, and that those who urge aid to Britain, short of war or all out, are therefore "warmongers and fanatic speech makers." He does not take the trouble to show why his attitude is the only "humane and logical viewpoint"; he either cannot or will not explain his reasons. Secondly, he assumes that the fact that so many leading men and newspapers have changed their minds about the meaning of this war is indicative of the baleful results of a "warmongering diet". Mr. Young seems to believe that...
...them many times. The tone had been quiet, generally. Observers noted that, if the 77th is a war Congress, it is unlike every such U. S. Congress heretofore. Nearly every speaker on both sides preened himself on his lack of emotion, took pride in his own hardheaded, coldly practical viewpoint. All the tears shed for Britain could have been collected in an eyedropper; all the hate for Hitler couldn't have been compressed into enough arsenic to furnish a murder mystery. The Congress tried in its own way to keep its head on straight. Franklin Roosevelt had taken...
They have pumped the public full to the gills with the very propaganda against which they at first warned and have influenced themselves as well as their readers away from the humane and logical viewpoint with which every sane man sympathized a year and a half...
...which came out spang during the 1918 revolution, had quite a succès d'estime. The Scheu-Rieszes have long mixed politics and publishing. Her husband, who died before the Anschluss, published some 200 children's books from different languages in an effort to broaden the viewpoint of Viennese primary school children, who were using "dreadfully nationalistic" primers. In off hours Frau Scheu-Riesz organized a kind of socialist salon where she mixed left social democrats, right social democrats, reformers, Communists and Nazis. Most of her guests have since "gone to camp," as she puts it-concentration...