Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times's military expert, Hanson W. Baldwin, simultaneously had discovered that "the political factors in the war today are more important than the purely military factors." Pondering this, he wrote...
Dynamic Debt. As a prophecy of a "decline and fall of the U.S. empire," As We Go Marching will appeal to all devotees of orthodox finance. Many a hopeful liberal, however, will wonder why Investigator Flynn did not look into the experience of Baldwin's Britain and the various Scandinavian successes in using the debt "dynamically," yet within safe limitations...
...Embattled. Such men had to have liberty, but to each the word meant a different thing, and to all it meant special privileges. Says Baldwin: ". . . It was inevitable that the historic struggle for English liberty should often be turned into a struggle for supremacy. Liberties had a habit of clashing." And the clashes produced what Baldwin thinks is the keystone of world democracy, the English Common...
...world, yet the treatment she receives often makes her look like a slut." He agrees that the charge of hypocrisy commonly leveled against the Englishman is true. Perpetually riven "by the struggle between necessity and conscience," Englishmen can hardly be expected to be otherwise. But the main point, says Baldwin, is that the English conscience is always consulted...
...steady progress toward "the golden mean which reconciles the necessary control of the modern state with the greatest feasible liberty of the individual." This Anglo-Saxon democracy, "like walking, is a continually arrested fall forward"-imperfect, surely, but the best there is and a wonderful thing at that. Concludes Baldwin: "Though the white race should disappear from the earth, yet if the American Negro and the Chinese carry on our ideals then England will be the spiritual home of man as truly as Greece is his intellectual home...