Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast a gulf divided the haves and havenots. The free world's industrial nations, with only one-third of the population and a quarter of its land area, produce 86% of its manufactured goods. On the other side of the chasm are the restless two-thirds of mankind who occupy 75% of the free world, produce less than 15% of its goods...
...massive struggle for a greater share of the world's wealth, mankind's underprivileged majority is on a collision course with the most violent explosion of population in world history. Its path was charted in San Francisco by the University of California's Sociologist Kingsley Davis, who is also U.S. delegate to the U.N. Population Commission. Warned Davis: "Any discussion of future economic development which ignores population growth is fallacious...
...profound economic and political significance of this runaway human inflation is that the two-thirds of mankind who live in the world's underdeveloped countries are now multiplying twice as fast as in industrialized societies. To support the extra population these countries are least able to afford, they are forced to consume less and produce more, and are falling ever lower in living standards. Said Dr. A. Eugene Staley, Stanford Research Institute's senior international economist: "Despite all the vaunted technological and economic progress of modern times, there are probably more poverty-stricken people in the world today...
...other observations. It was a "disaster for mankind" that Communist China has not been admitted to the U.N. He was not pleased with Konrad Adenauer, the friend of NATO, apostle of free enterprise and foe of Communism. "The government of Western Germany," blurted Nye, "is coming more and more under the same economic and financial influence which helped to create the Germany of Hitler." As for the Middle East: "We believe that it is absolutely nonsense to imagine you can maintain peace [there] without an arrangement to which Russia herself will be a contributor." He did not point out that...
...hall. Red and angry he stood his ground, his eyes darting blue sparks. When the hubbub quieted, he spoke slowly. "If war were to break out between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.," he said with heavy emphasis, "this country would be poisoned together with the rest of mankind. I want an opportunity of influencing the policies of these countries. If a Socialist Foreign Secretary is to have a chance, he must not be disarmed diplomatically and intellectually." Bevan seemed utterly frank. He said he had heard rumors that he was taking this line only because he wanted to be Foreign...