Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even President Conant's U.M.S. plan escaped. The Freeman's watchful eye. "Those who are familiar with his (Conant's) political attitudes, his scandalous tolerance of fellow-traveling professors, his enthusiasm for raising the already confiscatory rates of the inheritence tax, his desire to put our universities under federal control by grants of federal tax monies, and his repetitions of the Communist slogan of a 'classless society,' will not be astonished at his desire to regiment even those physically handicapped." (From the February 26 issue...
...sphere of foreign policy, The Freeman promised to "favor the constant growth of cooperation between free peoples" with an emphasis on "the development of mutual goodwill." Just what type of goodwill and cooperation the magazine wanted to promote was clarified in "Why Europe Resents Us" (October 2). According to its author, William Schlamm, "our long and costly attempt to save the Old World" has produced an unexpected reaction among the Europeans. "Today the exasperating European contempt for America is no longer the mere pastime of arrogant and more or less discountable British and Continental snobs." As Mr. Schlamm sees...
Chiang Kai-Shek's "Free China" (Formosa) continuously gets applause from "The Freeman." In "Can Chiang Trust America?" by Alfred Kohlberg, the exiled dictator is pictured as "simple and direct. . . a deeply religious Christian." Mr. Kohlberg, Treasurer of The Freeman, made his fortune in export trade with Nationalist China and was registered as a representative for the Kuomintang government. Grand Strategy articles in the magazine call for an active war against Communist China through arming Chiang. Thus, while America keeps her troops at home, we can "free Eurasia without expending a single American soldier in battle." Europe is written...
Some people might not agree with these opinions, but technically, The Freeman is well-written and consistent. It sees itself as presenting not capsulated thought, but stimuli to independent thinking...
Following in the muddy footsteps of Senator McCarthy, a new publication called "The Freeman" is pasting the Communist label on everyone in sight. The writers of this magazine, which is described elsewhere on this page, have discovered the old trick of associating groups they personally dislike with something the public doesn't like. McCarthy used this ruse for political gains; "The Freeman" uses it to disguise a worn out policy of retreatism...