Word: geopoliticians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph (Mission to Moscow) Davies, ex-Ambassador to Russia and sometime apologist for the Soviet Union; the Rev. Daniel Poling, noted Baptist minister and editor of the Christian Herald; Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric Co. and wartime vice-chairman of WPB; the Rev. Edmund Walsh, Georgetown University geopolitician; Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser and ghostwriter to Franklin Roosevelt; Dr. Harold Dodds, president of Princeton University; Truman Gibson Jr., Negro attorney and onetime civilian aide to the Secretary of War; and one woman, Hungarian-born Anna Rosenberg, labor-relations expert...
...helped found the Japanese Communist Party (1922), spent many years in Moscow, served as one of the Communist International's Far Eastern experts. He was a disciple of the late Sen Katayama (once a Comintern agent in the U.S.), who was so violently anti-American that German Geopolitician Karl Haushofer gave his views a special classification-revolutionary pan-Asiatism of the "Katayama type...
...Geography of the Peace was compiled from notes for lectures left by the great U.S. geopolitician when he died last year. It was edited by Helen R. Nicholl, who was for two years Professor Spykman's assistant and chief researcher. To illustrate the threat to encircled North America, Editor Nicholl has provided 51 maps drawn by her, many of them under Professor Spykman's direction...
These words were spoken just 70 years ago, by a now-forgotten U.S. citizen named William Gilpin.* Last week Bernard De Voto, Harper's Easy Chair editor, dug this early geopolitician out of the dusty stacks of U.S. history, showed him to be the author of some amazingly prophetic geopolitical ideas...
Startling Dearth. In startling contrast to the spate of military books was the dearth of competent political books that could provide U.S. readers of 1943 with some clue to the background of conflict from which they might appraise the turbulent changes of the year. The geopoliticians were busy. Andreas Dorpalen's The World of General Haushofer ($3.50) and Derwent Whittlesey's German Strategy of World Conquest ($2.50) examined the basic ideas which German Geopolitician Haushofer has contributed to Nazi grand strategy. Still a strong seller was Democratic Ideals and Reality ($2.50), by aging British Geopolitician Sir Halford Mackinder...