Word: fermentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quick, critical look at U.S. education (some $2,000,000,000 a year) was taken in FORTUNE's July issue. In "Ferment in Education" FORTUNE's editors shared the widespread feeling that even the best U.S. schooling has limited educational value, but plumped strongly for more of it (at Federal expense, if need be), arid for a better kind...
...some kind of solid working agreement with Russia, says Traveler Willkie, is not enough. The whole world, he found, is in a revolutionary ferment which can be resolved - with powerful, genuinely democratic guidance-into a great peace. This is a "war of liberation.... The world is awake, at last, to the knowledge that the rule of people by other peoples is not freedom, and not what we must fight to preserve. ... In Africa, in the Middle East, throughout the Arab world, as well as in China and the whole Far East, freedom means the orderly but scheduled abolition...
...stodgy government of Premier Emmanuel Tsouderos, onetime rich Athenian banker, was still in ferment. In an effort to placate the liberal element formerly represented by Kanellopoulos alone, four old ministers had been replaced by four new ones. Greek Army Fascists had been tossed out of the high command of Free Greek battalions in Egypt and Syria. The Government has promised to resign when Greece is liberated, and weak-willed King George has likewise promised to "conform to the will of the people...
...Autonomy for subject peoples. ("There is a ferment among many peoples who are now subject to alien rule. That will make durable peace unattainable unless such peoples are satisfied that they can achieve self-rule without passive or active resistance to the now constituted authorities...
...into Axis meanings. Also, private operators like to beam their stations to the most thickly populated areas, while the OWI wants to spread a worldwide blanket evenly. Emergency funds should cover leasing of the 14 existing stations. Another need: Official propaganda directives. But OWI brains are seething with a ferment of heady plans...