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...memorable The Struggle for the World, which shocked people who still believe that good will and good wishes are enough to create One World (TIME, March 24, 1947), James Burnham told Americans that they must defeat Communism or be defeated by it; there were no other alternatives. In a new book, The Coming Defeat of Communism (John Day; $3.50), Philosopher Burnham of New York University tells Americans what he thinks they must do to bring about Communism's defeat...
...terrain loom the same old dangers of complacency ("We are winning the cold war"), inertia ("Wait for the dust to settle") and false security ("They'll never match our atomic stockpile"). With a combination of cold logic and hot passion that burns like dry ice, Burnham tries hard to arouse the free world to full realism and resolution. Burnham's argument...
Some of the "unconventional" policies which Burnham advocates...
...oysters this year is estimated at 11,500,000, or only one-quarter oyster for every man, woman & child in Great Britain. There is a shortage, blamed on the weather and U.S. invaders. The big freeze in 1947 damaged the beds in the heart of the oyster country at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Senior Naturalist Knight Jones of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reported ruefully: "Mortality was 90% in the Crouch." The U.S. invaders were two snail-like creatures Railed the American slipper limpet and the American whelk tingle, which bore through the shells and eat the young oysters...
...thirds were registered for the Crimson when Charlie Keith heaved the javelin 178 feet, 2 inches, and John Thorndyke threw the hammer 159 feet. 5 1/4 inches to edge out Dartmouth ace James Burnham by 2 3/4 inches...