Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Subject to parliamentary approvalr Sweden, political arch-enemy of Communism, last week became the first power in all the world to negotiate a direct government loan to Soviet Russia. The loan agreement, announced last week in Moscow, is for 100,000,000 kroner ($26,300,000), big for Sweden, for seven years at 51%. It would shatter once and for all the twelve-year financial blockade by governments against the U. S. S. R. The money must be spent in Sweden, would buy high grade steel for tools, electrical machinery, ball bearings, iron...
...goes, chaos is the result. Democracy, it is quite true, has been a failure in many countries but democracy was grafted in those countries on the stem of absolutism, and the graft does not do well. "If the people of this country in great numbers become adherents of either Communism or Fascism there can be only one end to it and that end is civil...
...impulse and brutality of human beings which makes collectivism the only safe economic solution. On the other hand, communist collectivism cannot be the last word; the classless state of Marx, with its absence of conflict may be a symbol in a revolutionary religion, but it is only a symbol. Communism, which may have to oppose Christianity as an institution, will have to revive it as a doctrine, and as a way of life, after its own victory is accomplished...
...American Federation of Labor has been greatly strengthened in the past year and the redistribution of money has been hinted at and partially put into effect by the devaluation of the dollar, but in the end the effect will only be for more liberalism, not for salaams or communism. Several good things will eventually come from the legislation which is made possible by the strong public support which the administration is getting at present, such as child labor laws, higher pay, and better control of financial speculation...
...critics: I am always a little amused and perhaps at times a little saddened-and I think the American people feel the same way-by those few writers and speakers who proclaim tearfully either that we are now committed to communism and collectivism, or that we have adopted fascism and a dictatorship. The real truth of the matter is that for a number of years in our country the machinery of democracy had failed to function. . . . There are some people, of course, who do not think things through; as, for example, the man who complained in one of yesterday morning...