Word: grafton
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...DEMOCRACY WILL DEFEND AMERICA-Samuel Grafton-Simon & Schuster...
British Laborite Harold J. Laski is a sometime professor of economics at London's School of Economics, sometime lecturer at Harvard, sometime White House guest of Franklin D. Roosevelt, great & good friend of many a New Deal bigwig, including Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Samuel Grafton writes I'd Rather Be Right, a New Dealing column in the New York Post. Both their books are important because they talk out loud in public about hopes that most New Dealers prefer to talk about only among New Dealers. Both are, whether the authors know it or not, handbooks...
...minds of Authors Grafton and Laski, World War II is 1) a symptom that capitalist democracy can no longer solve its own economic and social problems; 2) a heaven-sent chance to ram through, under the guise of wartime necessity, radical social changes that citizens would never stand for in peacetime. Laski calls his program "revolution by consent." He proposes that the owners of property consent to what they cannot prevent...
Columnist Grafton does not use the word revolution. His formula for "how democracy will defend America": "set [the people] loose and learn from them...
...plan: Jobs to be provided by government for everybody who has not got one-to be paid for by everybody who has. "The money cost, it can be admitted with a certain smugness, will be quite staggering . . . ten billions the year to care for approximately eight millions of unemployed." Grafton proposes a three-year plan of this kind, "embracing everything from the construction of bomb-proofs in the East Coast cities to a military CCC to turn the tinkering genius of young America loose on tank and plane repair and maintenance." The Nazis did it, he says...