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...McNutt succeeds in his job, WMC may-more than any economic theorists or post-war planners-set the shape of things to come for America. His problem is the problem of the Administration, of Congress, of the nation. All of them may go down to defeat unless they master the will to tackle the ugly, painful...
...actions and ideas of American undergraduates are thoroughly portrayed. John W. Ballantine, 42, reports on the work of the Harvard Council on Post-War Problems, and William Hodson, '42, contributes an article on the techniques of campaigning for political candidates. Hodson, using as an illustration the efforts of the Harvard Liberal Union in Representative Eliot's 1940 campaign, provides a leaven of refreshing realism. Harvard's other contributions are "Two Parables" by Howard Nemerov, '41, poetry by William Ober, '41, and a summary of the Crimson editorial series, "Give Us the Blueprints...
Periodicals dealing with subjects as ephemeral as "planning the post-war world" are apt to find themselves becalmed in the doldrums of utopian yearnings. "Threshold" has skillfully stayed afloat and on its course without jettisoning its credo...
With a summer of concrets accomplishment behind it, the Council on Post-War Problems is looking forward this fall to the most active period in its short existence...
Founded in October, 1941 to take, up the slack in undergraduate thinking which inevitably took root as the United States approached closer to World War II, the Council had as its aim to provoke serious thought and discussion about post-war problems and interest in international cooperation...