Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be up to history to decide who has done more for his country and for mankind: Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . whose name is linked with freedom, democracy and humanity ... or Cotton Ed Smith who wastes the time of his people by insulting their President...
...points by listing no fewer than 21 "peacemaking blunders" committed by the World War I President. Professor Bailey, author of the most readable modern book on U.S. diplomacy, A Diplomatic History of the American People, scored as "perhaps Wilson's most tragic blunder" his belief "that mankind could attain a kind of international millennium at one bound. He confused the task of making peace with Germany, which was an immediate need, with that of remaking the world, which was the long-range need...
Bailey said these blunders had "resulted in the most far-reaching consequences" and said we were faced with their repetition. Wilson's most tragic blunder, he said, was probably his "assumption (or was it a hope?) that mankind could attain a kind of international millenium at one bound. He confused the task of making peace with Germany, which was an immediate need, with that of remaking the world, which was the long-range need. The resulting treaty failed of both objectives...
...Pope observed that mankind had lost its way to the manger of Bethlehem, expressed the hope that the way might be found again before another Christmas comes. He said: "Ruins all over the world are increasing. Humanity is suffering and we all see this conflict degenerating into something more and more terrible. Reason and spirit seem to be darkened throughout the world. Christ only can deliver humanity. . . . To work, dearest brothers, do not stand idle. Let us start the reconstruction of the world...
...blood, filled its veins with a mythical preservative called "Radium-K bromide" and three years later restored the dog to life by pumping blood back-a fantasy which Gernsback claims has been fully validated by recent Soviet dog-reviving experiments (TIME, Nov. 22). In Gernsback's view, mankind's abolition of death is only a question of time...