Word: kohn
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Brighter possibilities for a more lasting world peace after this war were describing last night by Hans Kohn, visiting professor in Government, in a talk to a group of 40 College and Radcliffe students. His talk, "The Lessons to Be Learned from Versailles," opened a series to be conducted by the "America's Role in World Affairs" division of the Post-War Council...
...Wars," Professor Kohn said, "have many purposes, but only one cause, that being self-defense." A better peace can only be built around the realization that the United States has been fighting a war for survival, and not a crusade, the lecturer said...
Pointing out that the American public after the last war had been hurt very little, with comparatively few causalities, Professor Kohn expressed little fear that a similar state of public opinion would exist at the close of the present war. Well over a million causalities, and a resultant economic depression, will hardly let the American public slide into a rose-colored view of world happenings he added...
Deprecating any public demonstration in favor of a second front although personally in favor of one, Kohn stated that it was most likely to come, not in France, but in some theatre of the war not publicized at present, such as French North Africa or Finland and Norway...
While ignoring the United States except for one vague reference to President Roosevelt, Hitler did refer to Churchill as a "military idiot," thus revealing what, Kohn termed his biggest weakness, an underestimation of his adversaries "common to all megalomaniacs...