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Will UNO Work? The onetime rabid isolationist reaffirmed his faith in a United Nations: "I do not share the melancholy pessimism heard in some quarters." Some phases of the London record, of course, were disappointing: "I confess that in this first meeting of the United Nations I missed the uplifting and sustaining zeal for a great, crusading, moral cause which seemed to imbue the earlier Charter sessions at San Francisco." He had sensed "a tendency to relapse into power politics ... to use the United Nations as a self-serving tribune rather than as a tribunal...
...hundred topflight-U.S. artists were asked to confess privately how much they earned from the sale of their paintings. The answer, as reported in this month's Magazine of Art: an average of $1,154 in a year. Complained one hard-pressed artist, in his answer to the questionnaire: "[We] have no place in American life, as of today...
...Martin Luther, a gigantic incarnation of the German spirit, was exceptionally musical. I frankly confess that I do not love him. ... He was a liberating hero-but in the German style, for he knew nothing of liberty. I am not speaking now of the liberty of the Christian but of political liberty, the liberty of the citizen-this liberty not only left him cold, but its impulses and demands were deeply repugnant to him. . . . Luther hated the peasant revolt which ... if successful, would have given a happier turn to German history, a turn toward liberty. . . . He told the princes that...
Alice: Well, I must confess I'm prejudiced, but I did like all the music and costumes and scenery and the music and costumes and scenery and the oafish magic. Sometimes it almost sounded like Gilbert Sullivan, though I don't know what on earth it was satirizing...
...Power conflicts (see below), was pleasantly surprised when the job was done and the charter could be read as a whole. Some of them (notably Arthur Vandenberg-see U.S. AT WAR) felt like saying, as Ben Franklin did, after the U.S. Constitution was drafted in 1787: "I confess I do not entirely approve of this constitution at present. ... I consent . . . because I expect no better and because I am not sure it is not the best. . . . It astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does...