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Although the Democrats are the majority party, President Eisenhower will be reelected in November, Oscar Handlin, Professor of History recently predicted...
...September issue of Commentary, published by the American Jewish Committee, Handlin attributed Eisenhower's imminent victory to the public's desire for "the appearance of peace and stability the Eisenhower administration has given them...
...public's willingness to believe in a false peace and stability is due to the desire to escape from the insecurity of wars, rising living costs, and international tension, Handlin declared. The illusion has been encouraged, he maintained, by an absence of well defined issues...
...Handlin decried as false the notions that "peace is a way to liberate the satellites, strategic retreats in every part of the globe strengthen a military position, and small cheap armies, under God, are more powerful than large expensive ones--and better for the budget...
...help meet the crisis, says Handlin, the U.S. can fall back on such devices as classroom TV and the use of lay assistant teachers. But the problem will never disappear until the U.S. has raised salaries ("Teachers are the only occupational group whose real earnings have actually fallen since 1940") and changed its whole attitude toward a profession that is too often caricatured as made up of frustrated Our Miss Brookses. Meanwhile, "makeshifts" will have to do. We can only minimize the damage, maintain standards as best we can for the time being, and lay a foundation for future recovery...