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...they constitute a new field of literature in themselves. Among the most readable postwar books: Make This the Last War (Michael Straight, $3); Let the People Know (Norman Angell, $2.50); U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (Walter Lippmann, $1.50); Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (Harold J. Laski, $3.50); Between Tears and Laughter (Lin Yutang...
Replied Planner Laski (whose remarks were punctuated with phrases like "my poor dear Johnston"): "If you . . . think that private enterprise is going to be so much more beneficial after this war . . . how do you account for the fact that we went from the last war straight into the depression of 1929?" Snapped Enterpriser Johnston: "I am amazed that a man like you would make a statement of that kind. . . . We are finding out in the United States today that there is no such thing as overproduction." When Laski brought up the well-known fact that so-called free enterprise...
...Laski's final barb: "It is marvelous-in a perspiration of passionate excitement Johnston has rediscovered Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, which dates from 1913." But Johnston sneaked in the last word: "It is not Woodrow Wilson who discovered it; it has been the ideal of man since he crawled out of savagery into civilization . . . and you know...
Four days later Laski, who writes a syndicated column for the Chicago Sun, reported his reactions to Messrs. Johnston & Benton. He was still "bewildered" by their blindness to what he considered the inevitable direction in which the world is moving. "Alongside their outlook," he wrote, "Churchill can really only be described as a left-wing radical...
...Right. Harold Laski would have found Crusader Johnston's lecture to a British Chambers of Commerce luncheon later in the week just as bewildering. Eric Johnston told his hosts: "We ought to put a dead stop to all this palaver . . . about how blood is thicker than water," base U.S.-British relations on the facts about the two nations...