Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME states that in the February elections, the Spanish Rightests outpolled the Leftists by about 340,000 votes. Yet, according to Louis Fischer (writer for the Nation), the Popular Front received 422,000 more votes than the Rightest party. Whom shall I accuse...
...Vagabond, who loves to speculate on world events, no time was ever quite as interesting as the present. In Europe, a new balance of power is emerging; in the Far East, a new nation is building an empire; and in Austria, Hitler is beginning to realize his long sought-after union of the German peoples. In Switzerland, the placid waters of Lake Geneva lap in the ears of the few remaining statesmen who cling to the ideal of collective security, and in the rest of the world prophets of despair are again preparing funeral services for the League of Nations...
What is the role of Japan in the world of tomorrow? Can the nation which seems destined to rule an empire in the East be ignored by western statesmen? What of Spain? Will she ever regain her position as a power in Europe? And if so, where will her support be placed? What of America? What of the colossus of the West, the nation still thinking in terms of nineteenth century isolation, still shrinking from the cold, harsh realities of world politics...
...Conant, whose championship of democratic education is well known, calls the nation's attention to a serious problem...
...Jefferson's ideal must be achieved . . . our children will see what the world has never witnessed: a nation in which basic education is truly universal and careers are open to the talented drawn from every class and section of the land...