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...Germany chose to try for peace with Russia, the object would be to avoid another possible Versailles. Germany might get such a peace by ousting the Nazis and on fairly easy terms if Stalin would accept the kind of democratic-capitalist regime urged by the Free German Committee in Moscow (TIME, Aug. 2). A peace allowing the German State to retain an army and to rebuild its economy, a peace along the endless, abrasive eastern front, would be by no means unattractive to millions of Germans, even to some conservatives and some of the military. To the Nazis...
...there was tangible evidence that the time was hardly at hand. Six members of the Consejo Nacional who had signed a petition to Franco urging immediate return to monarchy were ousted. Blustered Francisco Franco: "The liberal-capitalist system in Spain is dead forever...
...conservatives see this as a return, at least in part, to the traditional freedoms of enterprise, with a release of creative impulses that state control shackles, Professor Laski labors under the desperate fear that the end of experiment will mean a reaction of exhaustion and apathy. He insists that capitalist economy be removed while the war is in progress; if it is not, he believes that nothing can prevent disillusionment, upheaval and violence. "Totalitarian war compels men to live on the heights [where] they can see vistas which become obscure once more when, as the challenge is overcome, they descend...
...Hottentot can have a skinful of milk a day if he wants it, provided U.S. ingenuity can find something for the Hottentot to produce that others want, and can stake him to the tools the work requires. The U.S., often doubtful in recent years whether it was really a capitalist nation, has arrived at a position where, for its own good, it will practically be forced to become the chief capitalist to the world...
...Bolshevists are justly very proud of what they have accomplished in Russia during the past decade. Their pride of accomplishment has naturally been greatly increased by the prodigious achievements of their armies in comparison with the inability of the capitalist nations to open a second front on the continent of Europe...