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...defeatist or delighter in destiny, Author Brailsford believes ''this is not one of those hopeless moments in the world's history . . . our age is poised precariously between order and chaos. . . ." Democracy is in retreat, but democracy as the world has known it has been a middle-class laissez-faire system whose results "curiously resemble a dictatorship of the owning class. ... It is rather a prize to be won than a possession to be defended." The root of economic disorder, says Author Brailsford. is the institution of property. A planned capitalism is impossible, "a contradiction in terms...
...suspect that one explanation of the French success of the "Journey" is that it lays open the terrible defeatist psychology that has attached itself to the French people, the psychology that acknowledges at one time the hideousness and inevitability of War and which realizes the futility of a French victory as much as it dreads the possibility of a German...
...neither would he let her have any baby but himself. Bruno was a too-coherent professor whose Jewish intelligence paralyzed his will. When the Magazine he loved to talk about starting finally came to the point of starting, he let it fizzle out in a gargantuan defeatist joke. Though he loved the girl he might have had for the asking and knew she was headed for disaster, he never lifted a finger to save her. These and other characters stand out from the energetic flow of Author Slesinger's narrative, but what makes the book both entertaining and impressive...
...Western Worldling stops to listen. His monumental Decline of the West galvanized the attention of European and U. S. intellectuals, caused a hopeful pricking-up of Asiatic ears. Uncompromising pessimist, Spengler sounded the knell of Western civilization, which he said had passed maturity, was beginning a swift senescence. No defeatist, in The Hour of Decision he rings a tocsin...
Franklin Roosevelt had used Mr. Young during the campaign but had passed him by as an adviser since March 4. Slightly defeatist, Mr. Young has experienced politics, international economics, big business. Last week at Cambridge's Radcliffe he weighed the New Deal, concluded that it would be neither a complete success nor an utter failure. A thoughtful critic. he predicted that "the immobility of men's minds, the persistent force of habit, the resistance to new rules" would thwart quick fundamental changes in U. S. life...