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...California's Robert Gordon Sproul: I am no flag-waving jingo but I have grown infinitely weary of the deprecation of America and American institutions. Listen and learn about Communism, Socialism and every other "ism" so that you may balance the different systems one against the other, but don't be misled...
When in January the Seven Wise Men of the Economics Department contributed "The Economics of the Recovery Program" to Harvard's already well nourished reputation as a home for die-hard academicians schooled in the embalmed jingo of a dead era, it was not Professor Taussig nor Professors Carver nor Burbank nor any other of the great Civil War school, but a new-comer, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, J.U.D., ex-finance minister of Austria, internationally known economic theorist, and no fool, who showed his hand...
...arguments against military and naval science are many and diverse. There are some who oppose them on philosophical grounds, who object to the fact that a jingo spirit is kept in strength and energy by the intrusion of professional soldiers into college classrooms. This view they have supported with great insight and appropriate vigour, but its quarrel with the present is so fundamental that their efforts have not met with much success. There is, however, no necessity to confine the attack on military and naval science to these grounds. Two other arguments have been presented; no answer to either...
...mind. Even such a scholarly work as this cannot hamper his characteristic style: "During the whole of his life Louis XIV was the curse and pest of Europe. No worse enemy of human freedom has ever appeared in the trappings of polite civilization." By his own enemies called a jingo, a hidebound Tory, moonfaced Winston Churchill has always pined for action. For a politician he has seen plenty though he has never headed his party in power or out. As commander of the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers in France in 1916, Descendant Churchill took a soldier's interest...
...sole ruler. And if I read anything into Mr. Hitler's past, it primarily that Mr. Hitler has learned well the requisites of Dictatorship. The permanence of his power, as he well knows, will depend upon a quick consolidation of strength at home, and upon a decisive, jingo stand abroad...