Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 60 visiting instructors also taught at the school; these included poet Pierre Emmanuel, economist David McCord Wright, critic John Crowe Ransom, History professor Hans Kohn, and foreign policy expert Hans J. Morgenthau...
About 60 visiting instructors also taught at the school; these included poet Pierre Emmanuel, economist David McCord Wright, critic John Crowe Ransom, History professor Hans Kohn, and foreign policy expert Hans J. Morgenthau...
...Morgenthau directs his most bitter criticism to appeasement on the home front. "Sometimes Mr. Acheson acts as a great statesman, and sometimes he acts as a member of the Truman administration. Appeasing MacCarthyism domestically does not pay anymore than foreign appeasement does. Acheson operates under political obstacles and does things he can't approve of intellectually. The administration underestimates the people and fails to take them in its confidence...
Americans are under a great many sentimental illusions, according to Morgenthau. The United States interfered in Korea because it was in our national interest to do so, and it was not really United Nations collective action. "Some of the other countries sent nurses to Korea, perhaps to show the boys what they are fighting...
Unpleasant as some of Morgenthau's views seem, he is on the side of peace and live-and-let-live, for "war has ceased to be a rational way of settling disputes." "It is a lesser evil for the Lathuanians to be enslaved than for everyone to go to war over their fate. No foreign policy can make everyone happy...