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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make-up of the commission was almost as interesting as its 448-page report. The chairman: Physicist Karl Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The members: Joseph (Mission to Moscow) Davies, ex-Ambassador to Russia and sometime apologist for the Soviet Union; the Rev. Daniel Poling, noted Baptist minister and editor of the Christian Herald; Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric Co. and wartime vice-chairman of WPB; the Rev. Edmund Walsh, Georgetown University geopolitician; Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser and ghostwriter to Franklin Roosevelt; Dr. Harold Dodds, president of Princeton University; Truman Gibson Jr., Negro attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Reluctant, Unanimous | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...bewhiskered giants of 19th Century socialism, Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin, split over the issue of compulsory state planning v. the free action of voluntary associations of workers. Said Bakunin in 1872: "Marx is an authoritarian and centralizing communist. He wants what we want: the complete triumph of economic and social equality, but he wants it in the state and through the state power, through the dictatorship of a very strong and, so to say, despotic provisional government, that is, by the negation of liberty. . . . We want the reconstruction of society . . . not from above downward . . . but from below upwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: After the Flesh | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Arms & the Men. There were other tales. Awaiting trial in Baltimore sat one Karl John Eisenhardt and two ex-G.I.s caught last month with 21 machine guns outside Baltimore. Venezuela's Development Minister Perez Alfonso carefully voiced his opinion that the group was fixing to run guns into Venezuela for a revolution to be staged by the political outs. Eisenhardt had served the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare in Caracas back in López Contreras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Guns Across the Caribbean | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...even as the House brandished the ax, a highbrowed, heavy-jowled Congressman from South Dakota was rushing to avert it. To those who best remembered him as a vociferous pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist, Karl Mundt seemed a strange rescuer. In 1939 he had suggested tartly that Americans spend more time "minding our own business instead of . . . meddling in the governments of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The American Twang | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...year-old Karl Mundt is a man who believes in the power of speech and the written word. He had been a schoolteacher for twelve years, gave it up for the wider audience of politics. As an articulate member of Kiwanis, Masons, Shriners, Elks, Odd Fellows, and the House of Representatives (since 1939), he has never been frightened by a rostrum. He is president of the National Forensic League. He has written for Outdoor America, the Country Gentleman, Conservation, Education and Successful Farming. He writes a monthly column about Washington for the Republican magazine. The war convinced him that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The American Twang | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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