Word: goals
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...humanitarians" and opportunists among the Hindu intellectuals and middle class bourgeoisie which form the core of the Congress party. Started in 1885 by a retired British colonial, the party, since Gandhi took control of it in World War I, has had a melange of supporters held together by one goal: Swaraj (political independence...
...China's Chiang Kaishek, a new vision of world power has taken form. They hope to see a bloc of Asiatic powers, freed, enlightened and working as partners with the Western powers in the suppression of wars and the rooting out of poverty. In the way of that goal is old-style Western imperialism-and Japan. China has felt the hell of Japanese armies; India may feel it at any moment. But the Chinese fight for their own destiny. Millions of Indians, despite promises of future self-rule, do not have the same spirit. To them the emotional appeal...
Brightest prospect for the future is the fact that three days remain this week for the members of the Houses to fill their quotas. The War Service Committee, however, had hoped for a minimum weekly goal of $1000, $845 more than has so far been promised...
Under the impetus of the new pledge drive by the War Service Committee the Harvard undergraduate goal has been set at a minimum of $1000 each week. Other colleges such as Yale, with comparable enrollments and student allowances, have consistently topped that sum and are continuing to do so. But even these standards are startlingly modest when balanced against the contributions of the millions of wage-earning "ten percenters...
...present war is largely due to the fact that during the interval between the two world wars we were people without a faith. The first World War exhausted the spiritual springs within us. We wanted merely to be left alone. 'Security' became our only goal. It is, of course, impossible to perpetuate a spiritual vacuum throughout the world. Gradually new faiths began to be born. Unhappily they were not born in Britain, France or the U.S. We were the passive peoples upon whom operated the dynamic faiths born in Russia, Germany and Japan. And because the faiths...