Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporary success in large areas of China is not improbable. Chinese nationalism has only just begun to wipe out the old opportunist individualism, and the Japanese will be able to trot out a horde of antiquated politicians of the "Chinese traitor" class, who for a full rice bowl will act as a toothless front for Japanese control. This has succeeded, so far, in Manchuria...
...Wagner Act, not because of the principle of collective bargaining but because that one-sided measure has created rather than diminished labor disputes and needs amending...
...Social Security, not because of any inherent dislike for social legislation but because the Act is badly drawn and in need of drastic revision...
...Chester will ask for open minds. He thinks his program is fair, social, constructive, liberal. "If it is not, we are prepared to make it so." He wants capital and labor to recognize in advance that both employers and union leaders must "get off the back fence and act like men of intelligence before real progress can be made. ... Is Government then prepared to join with business and labor and say in all frankness, 'Well, we haven't cared much for one member of this group, but after all, we haven't made much headway by fighting...
...fact, America holds the key to the world's difficulties, at least in the economic sphere. For a century and a half, and especially since 1920, she has resolutely refused to contaminate herself with Europe's problems; the "Peace Act of 1937" was the isolationists' crowning achievement. In a series of two editorials to follow, the reasons for the utter impracticality of neutrality legislation and a few of the steps America could take to help prevent war will be briefly discussed...