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Your report [Sept. 7] on Albert Lynd's sizzling new book Quackery in the Public Schools is a cheering note of hope to those who are justifiably alarmed at the incredible stupidity and totalitarian tactics of some of the "educators" to whose care they must entrust the training of their children...
...last appeal. Democracy could not compromise with the Red left or the black right and survive, he insisted, speaking calmly but with a dry, bitter awareness of what was to come. The rightists could not be trusted, he said. As for the Communists and the Red Socialists: "We cannot entrust the country to either Communism or a coalition which would fall under the Cominform and invariably lead to forced labor, concentration camps and slavery. Rome would thus share the fate of Moscow and Prague . . . I am not prepared to be either an Italian Kerensky or a Von Papen. To this...
...classic contrast between politics and statesmanship. The very qualities that made them historically significant severly limited their vote-getting appeal. Stevenson did not talk down to the voters. If anything, he was too humble. The voters, unprepared to govern themselves, wanted a strong figure to whom they might entrust their futures in an hour of national crisis. His speeches showed him to be shy, modest, sensitive. His only charisma was that of the mind...
...going after the job was that he had never flown a jet plane, and the rocket-pushed Skyrocket was a sort of superjet. He got checked out in an F-80, and in twelve hours of jet flying he convinced Douglas engineers that he was the man to entrust with the precious Skyrocket...
...fact was that only the steelworkers still seemed really willing to entrust to Harry Truman all the power he thought necessary to forestall a strike in steel. One reason, clearly, was his failure to exhaust the laws of the land before stepping into the shadowy area between government of laws and government of men. More than that, the public attitude seemed to be a vote of no-confidence in the Administration's ability _to deal with an emergency largely of its own making...