Word: kohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Post-War Problems Council forum last week indicated a disturbing trend in internationalist thought. Professors Kohn, Wild, and Buell are representative of the intelligent internationally-minded group which has urged a more effective international organization and an "adequate" curtailment of the sovereignty of all nations. Without this, they felt, and we still feel, that the world will be ripe for a third global conflict. But the other evening they put almost all their emphasis upon the role of power and "realism" in the post war settlement...
Also taking in the forum will be Hans Kohn, visiting lecturer in Government, and Payson Wild, associate professor of Government...
...Kohn, author also of various books on the intellectual background of the War, is a professor of History at Smith College, while Wild, another author on the subject of international affairs, is at present lecturer at the Navy War College...
...implication, Professor Hans Kohn's "Living History" corroborates the Sweezy thesis. Dr. Kohn holds that World War II is actually World Revolution I, and that India is only a part of a planetary upheaval. Hitler saw and seized the new forces before his opponents, thereby gaining an initial advantage which strenuous effort alone can overcome. But, according to Hans Kohn, the effort will be wasted unless the United States recognizes and assumes a new responsibility for world peace...
With favorable American public opinion, and the realization that a war for survival has been fought, in back of the peacemakers, Professor Kohn predicted that a more lasting peace, possibly opening an era of universal good will, would come out of the post-war settlement...