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Iran. "On the basis of my studies and sojourn in Persia, I am convinced that Persia is now entering a period of chaos and anarchy . . . From the times of Darius and Cyrus, Persia has known only peace through a strong man ... To prate of democracy to the Persians is like advocating prohibition to the denizens of hell." Childs believes that "the money we are pouring into Persia is money thrown down a drain," and that the U.S. faces "the alternative of seeing Russia take over the whole of Persia or, if we are sufficiently farsighted, only the northern half...
...These individuals who prate about slavery do not hesitate to join in this communistic movement to enslave the white people of America . . . You have an illustration now. Our Yiddish Solicitor General has taken it upon himself to go into the Supreme Court and misrepresent the American people. . . by . . . trying to wipe out all segregation . . . This is a part of the communistic program, laid down by Stalin approximately 30 years ago. Remember communism is Yiddish. I understand that every member of the Politburo around Stalin is either Yiddish or married to one, and that includes Stalin himself...
Henry Adams was upset by the answer to his question, and there is good reason for educational philosophers to be disturbed by the replies of today. People prate of colleges providing young men with "practical experience" or "social stability" or "the free mind," but no formal educational process can call itself a success unless it gives to its recipients, along with facts and experience, the desire and ability to learn...
...sorry commentary on our public educational system that, while our leaders prate about "progressive education," educators themselves are establishing parochial schools for the training of their children...
...Critic Daiches suggests that she might have made a good political pamphleteer. It seems rather like gelding the lily. Yet Mrs. Woolf is memorable for clarity as well as iridescence. A devoted artist, she was no political revolutionist, but she had her veins of wrath. She wrote: "We may prate of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated in that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born." She added: "Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. . . . . Women have [always...