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...response to a student demand last fall, the first work camp ever to originate in an educational institution will open in Grafton, N.H. next summer under the sponsorship of Phillips Brooks House and American Defense, Harvard Group, it was announced yesterday by Raymond Dennett '36, graduate secretary of P.P.H...
Since last fall, representatives of P.B.H. have been locating possible reconstruction sites through the Water Resources Board of New Hampshire. Grafton was finally settled upon because there was no question of interference with local labor, and the citizens of the town were particularly anxious to have the work done...
...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...