Word: burnham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of The Managerial Revolution, Burnham believes that free enterprise economics is done for. The present book gives free enterprise no role in the U.S. foreign policy; apparently, the economic rivalry with Russia is to be a competition in collectivism...
Shudders will go up a lot of spines because of James Burnham's new book (The Struggle for the World-John Day; $3) published just five days after President Truman's historic message to Congress (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Burnham's purpose is neither to create nor allay shudders, but to stiffen the national spine...
...argument has been made before, sometimes with more tact, sometimes with more violence-never with such a compelling combination of chilling logic and prophetic fire. Everybody will want to disbelieve it. "Fascist warmongering" will "be among the gentler terms applied to it. Only one defense of Burnham's book can be made: it is-appallingly-true...
...Last, Long Chance. If a policy of vacillation is followed, Burnham believes that the Communists will be able to pick their own time for war between Russia and the U.S., and that Russia would win such a war even though the U.S. had superiority in atomic weapons. In the absence of a strong U.S. political policy to win world leadership, even a preventive war now by the U.S. against Russia would not end the threat of Communist world domination. But-just possibly-the U.S. might achieve a political policy strong enough to break the Communist drive, and thus avoid...
...Some of Burnham's specific suggestions for carrying out a positive policy are much weaker than his over-all analysis. He, like Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), proposes the suppression of the Communist Party, without explaining how that could be done effectively...