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...Roque Sáenz Peña, chief city of Argentina's cotton belt. To a Government already well-nigh frantic over the country's economic troubles the delegation put one more problem. Rains had ruined half the cotton crop, last hope of that curiously international, politically chaotic, economically devastated region known as the Argentine Chaco...
...particular group of Germans this prospect is intoxicating. They are engineers whose imaginations are as far-flung and generalized as most German engineering minds are focused and specific. Recently three German journals ran an article by Dr. Walter Hagemann. That colonial expert, sarcastically flaying the "chaotic" imperialism of the African past, vaguely blueprinted the Nazi Africa of the future, a sort of New Super-Order with Jules Verne trimmings...
...Next Peace. "The battle of the peace will be more difficult to win than the battle of the war. All Europe will be a mad swirl of chaotic forces. . . . Our help must be of such a nature that neither a mad man nor a mad nation will ever again have the opportunity to kill millions of people and destroy tens of billions of dollars of property...
...these chaotic '40s Dr. Niebuhr is not alone in doubting the goodness of man and the certainty of progress. To him sin is not ignorance, but pride and self-righteousness. He finds the good fully balanced by the evil in humanity, sees hope only if man admits his unworthiness and throws himself on God for help. Convinced that modern civilization is bad and "careening at the present moment to almost certain destruction," he terms the assumption that evolution is tending ever upwards superficial and unwarranted, calls a halt to theology's capitulation to science...
Painful Exigencies. Stirring around in the chaotic confusion that after six weeks of peace still prevailed throughout unoccupied France, Minister for Youth and Family Jean Ybarnegaray attempted last week to extricate French youth. Aping the Nazis, he organized "Youth Groups," his goal being to build strong Frenchmen by sport, work and "directed, clean living while still young ... to prepare youth morally and physically to meet the painful exigencies of existence...