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...education is a lifelong process, is one of adult education's most persuasive salesmen. He believes in a special kind-"not only for those who have missed a complete education, but also for those who have received one." He would have Anglo-Saxon countries take a lesson from Denmark's "people's high schools," which are not high schools but residential colleges for adults. There men & women in their late twenties leave their jobs for three or five months, to study the humanities and live a community life. Says Sir Richard: "[Only in this way can everyone...
...Concitions in Central Europe are deteriorating rapidly. . . . Undoubtedly conditions are better in Holland, Denmark and Belgium, but they are still very difficult in France and are terrible in parts of Germany. Unless some means can be found whereby the New World, and countries that have supplies of food and clothing, can furnish those supplies to the people [who need them], there may be conditions of famine, of strife and of turmoil which will amount to ... revolution throughout Europe. I think I am not wrong...
...French, Italian, Austrian and Belgian Socialists had a different position. They foresaw an eventual break with the Communists, but thought the present moment was "premature." Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland strung along with the British Labor Party, as they usually do. The Argentine delegate, Nicolás Repetto, hoped a Socialist International might help him fight Perón. A Canadian delegate favored an anti-Communist Socialist International, but he had a worry of his own: "Any future war will be between America and Russia-and we Canadians are between. We will get the atom bombs that miss...
Their plan: a summer swing through D.P. camps in France, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland. Their act: a septilingual* song-&-story routine...
Some Swedes dreamed of organizing an atomic cooperative among the Scandinavian countries. Sweden had uranium. Norway had heavy water and abundant electric energy. Denmark had Nobel Prizewinner Nils Bohr, one of the greatest living atom experts. Bohr had worked with the Manhattan Project, and no doubt knew many of its secrets. Swedish scientists stated emphatically that they were not interested in atomic bombs. Besides advancing pure science, they were aiming at industrial, technical, and medical uses of atomic energy...