Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Elliott makes himself a mighty strategic position from which to sling low punches at the Chicago Student Conference and the International Union of Students. If you dare to disagree, it makes you either a "Red" or worse yet "naive." But too much honest work and thought and hope have gone into the Chicago and the Prague Conferences, a little of it mine, to allow Elliott to get away with an attack that is ignorant, prejudiced, and untrue...
...true that the IUS is "Kremlin dominated." The British National Union of Students, certainly nobody's potsy, was in on building IUS from the first. The Executive Committee is not 3 to 1 composed of Reds, or Red-controlled. As to Elliott's squawk that the U. S. has only one man on the executive, how in the devil many should we have on a 17-man committee which represents 36 nations...
...this throws Elliott into a panic: American university students must be isolated from the real world until they have at least their Ph.D., to suit him. All the usual warnings against Communist domination serve Elliott as trimming for this otherwise unpalatable idea. But American students will reject the idea that they should leave all contact with the outside world to the wiser heads of Connally and Vandenberg. They have the "naive" idea that the answer to world problems is not the atom bomb and the man-made plague. They will be wary of anyone who tries to fool them. That...
There is, fortunately a basic flaw in his charge, and it can be found in the omnipresence of the word "naivete" in his allegations. If what Professor Elliott says is true--the all Western liberals are hopelessly naive--there can be but little hope for any of us, and certainly no sense in groping forward. The fact is that liberals have ever been called naive, and the fight has not yet been lost. It is just possible, then, that naivete is not as prevalent as Professor Elliott thinks and that the American delegates, having spent a good fraction of their...
...clear case has yet been made for American withdrawal from the I.U.S. To "pull up stakes" so early in the formative stages of the game--merely on the strength of such allegations--would be almost to admit to Professor Elliott's charge of naivete. Months ago the charge of "walking out" on the U.N. was levelled at Russia. Had the Soviet left U.N. then, no progress in international cooperation could have been expected. It would be ironie if the American delegation to the I.U.S. should take the same foolish stop...