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Flynn objected to Conant's use in the article of the term "the miraculous Russian State." It is a curious way to describe the Russian state." Flynn commented...
Flynn rested most of his argument, on this point, on an article by Conant in the Atlantic Monthly for May, 1943 entitled "Wanted: American Radicals...
...this article," Flynn stated, "Mr. Conant says that a total war has automatically eliminated the conservative and what we want now are American radicals . . . That was not in the platform on which the Republican Party just got elected . . . The animating principle of the government just elected is one of conservatism and conservation of the American system. I rather think our people are done, for the moment, with the redicals . . . There must be in the immense population of this country some man who is dedicated to the preservation of the American system rather than the Fabian dream in some...
...represents us at that particular point where we confront the Communist world and the Socialist world, should be a man at that particular time who represents what is the prevailing philosophy of the American people with only a small dissent from it. I believe, and Mr. Conant does not answer that specification...
Flynn also criticized statements made by Conant in a speech to the Foreign Policy Association on October 4, 1944. He quotes Conant's statement concerning Germany and Japan that "Matters must be so arranged that neither country can become a military power for at least 30 years," as proof that he supported the now discredited Morganthau plan which would have converted Germany into a purely agricultural and pastoral country...