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...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...
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...
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...