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Like the rest of my generation I fell under the sway of that "splendid isolationism" that bred a distrust of capitalistic wars and patriotic oratory. Fortunately, I have had my eyes opened...
...That U. S. correspondents on the scene in Germany thoroughly-distrust the news releases of the official press bureau (Dr. Goebbels); that all such correspondents, when they get out, give much more unfavorable accounts of economic and social conditions in Germany than the cables generally carry. - That U. S. correspondents in France have been able to learn virtually nothing...
...Professor Brewer points out very correctly, undergraduates show their distrust of liberal education by choosing fields of concentration which they imagine to be related to their future occupations. They always end up disappointed, as though they had not been told innumerable times that they should not hope for any practical training in their courses. Convinced that they are unprepared for the future, they continue groping for something that might be of "use." But only a systematized liberal education, an orderly presentation of all human thought, can give them this preparation. If they are to gain a solid stock of knowledge...
...American Federation of Labor's supposedly nonpartisan, predominantly Republican executive council, meeting in Miami, sneered that Lewis support for any candidate would be "a kiss of death." Most of the councilmen distrust the President as much as Mr. Lewis does, but for different reasons...
...issues - power rates, antiquated traffic laws, highway improvements. Last week he worked on his message to Congress. But if, like many a U. S. citizen, he looked back over the years between those speeches, it was to contemplate a period that future historians may well call the Age of Distrust. As the unsteady '20s had been the years of indifference, of wasted time and missed opportunities-when prosperity obscured blotches in the social system, gaping flaws in the economic structure-so the '305 were the years when U. S. citizens trusted neither themselves, their social system...