Word: kohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hans Kohn, distinguished historian and authority on nationalism, was born in Prague and educated at the university there. During the first World War he served as an officer in the Austrian army and was taken prisoner by the Russians. There he received his first teaching experience in a minature university organized within the prison...
...Kohn came to the United States in 1931 and has since been associated with such institutions as the New School of Social Research, the University of California, the University of Colorado, Dartmouth College, Grinnell College, and Smith College, where he heads the history department...
Introducing the series will be Hans Kohn, of Smith College, writing on the possibilities of a revamped League. Among others who will contribute are Professor Sidney B. Fay, Professor Gaetano Salvemini, and Ira F. Lewis, president of the Pittsburgh Courier...
...believe that, alone, a pooling of power by Great Britain and the United States can ensure a lasting peace. We are afraid that in our "news-paper democracy" and increasingly obstructionist Congress will not allow passage of such half-way international measures as those offered by Kohn, Buell, and Wild, unless the internationalists ask for a lot more...
This is not to say that we believe a world federation or anything like it can be established during the immediate post-war period. But we feel very strongly that the moderate minimum proposed by Professors Wild, Kohn, and Buell should be made strategically at the last moment, not weakly in advance. Wilson kept his aims but in the crucial Senate battle, failed to compromise; if we limit our demands now, we shall find ourselves unable to make the compromise which unfortunately will be required. The peace after this war must not be lost because of careless tactics...