Word: capitaliste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democratic society has always had to struggle to solve the contradiction between its two major objectives: 1) technological efficiency ("which implies a strong centralized organization tending toward collectivism"); 2) the liberties of the individual. There are two classic solutions : 1) the capitalist solution (preserving free enterprise in spite of economic inequalities) ; 2) the socialist solution (repudiating capitalism in the name of economic justice). Whether it is admitted or not, says Author de Sales, this conflict is now a definite "horizontal" factor...
Some of the men & women the book deals with: the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough ("the courtliest man of his generation had married its most abusive virago"); Robert Walpole ("a great spoke in the Philistine wheel and a heavy stone in the capitalist edifice"); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ("her personality, though it had its inconveniences while she lived, is exactly the sort that is welcomed in the dead"); John Wesley (who "was that fascinating type of fanatic-the 'rational' one ... 'I think,' said his father of him as a boy, 'I think our Jack would...
...Britain's ablest corporation lawyers, Sir Stafford quit practice in the '305, saying that he was tired of "taking large sums of money from one capitalist to give it to another capitalist." Thereafter he became even better known for his Christianity, vegetarianism (he was nicknamed "Christ and Carrots") and socialism. Before the war he was ejected from the Labor Party for advocating a popular front. Like Winston Churchill, he constantly foretold war, attacked the Munich men. As Ambassador to Russia, he favored a British-Russian coalition against Hitler...
...voyage, she brought Mr. Davies (then Ambassador to Belgium) and his wife home from Antwerp. Before that, when Mr. Davies was Ambassador to Russia, the yacht was moored in Leningrad's harbor. Before he took the Sea Cloud to Communist Russia, Mr. Davies was somewhat fearful that such capitalist swank might trouble the proletarian waters. He said as much to Russian Foreign Minister Molotov. "Of course, bring her over," said Molotov. "But would she be safe from sabotage?" persisted Mr. Davies. "Sabotage?" said Mr. Molotov. "Why, she'd be safer here from sabotage than she would...
Everywhere he went he breezily announced that he was a capitalist, proud of it, willing to argue about it. The Russians called him an "honest" man and were transparently delighted with him. To his table of frozen foods came Russians of many stripes, from the Army to the ballet...