Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read that extraordinary communication from Arthur Cremin in TIME'S Letters column last week? Its most memorable sentence was this: "To hell with all mankind when, through indifference to the great men who alleviate pain, it permits them either to starve, die of broken hearts, or pass their last days in acrimonious obscurity...
...hell with all mankind when, because of its indifference to the great men who alleviate its pain, it permits them either to starve, die of broken hearts, or pass their last days in acrimonious obscurity...
...confess that (after reading Vansittart's Lessons of My Life and Black Record) I was provoked to class him with Sir Samuel Hoare. If he is not nearly so silly, he certainly comes off the same shelf. He seemed as oblivious to what is happening to mankind today, on the whole, as a well-fed cat asleep, and his ideas of legitimate controversy seemed about as subtle as those of the same animal out on the tiles. He has got out of all responsibility, I gather, now, and is speaking his mind and letting us know how limited...
...nations ... on the ground that our national interests are affected thereby, while on the other hand manifesting indifference to the conditions creating such situations. ... So long as any nation follows policies designed exclusively for the protection and furtherance of its own interests . . . just so long will the welfare of mankind be retarded through unnecessary and futile wars...
...Adam. North Carolina's Congressman Carl Thomas Durham and his House Military Affairs subcommittee are not sure of the answer: they have attacked as Communist a pamphlet containing a cartoon which suggests that Adam & Eve did have navels. The cartoon (TIME, Jan. 31) is in The Races of Mankind (400,000 copies distributed), a 10? popularization of currently accepted scientific views about race which argues that any race of mankind is just as capable as any other...