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...Burnham's conclusion (and much of the rest of his book) draws heavily on Arnold J. Toynbee's A Study of History (TIME, March 17). Gloomily he holds out a great, Toynbeean hope...
...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...
...Burnham, however, is quite willing to leave to others the task of finding just how and where to apply the general policy of building what he calls the "democratic world order...
...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...
Harry Truman-or any American-looks small against that measure. The American people look bigger than Burnham thinks they...