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...Eric Allen Johnston appeared last week in the New York Times Magazine. The battle is joined between capitalism and socialism, said Johnston, but most American businessmen do not know the shooting has started. They are still giving "little more than lip service" to the faith in private enterprise they profess. Economic freedom in the U.S., said he bluntly, is still "the privilege of a few individuals." If capitalism is to prevail, it must be possible "for every man to call himself a Capitalist." Every man must have a financial stake in capitalism...
...American Eyes. Americans "want to return immediately to a world in which dollars are provided only on commercial loan terms. They also profess to want a world in which international trade moves freely between the countries without such wartime obstructions as exchange controls, license restrictions and discriminations. Now clearly they cannot have both, for the two aspirations contradict each other...
...Salvation. "For what is probably the majority of those who profess the great historical religions, [Heaven] signifies ... a happy posthumous condition of indefinite personal survival conceived of as a reward for good behavior . . . and a compensation for the miseries inseparable from life in a body. But for those who . . . have accepted the Perennial Philosophy . . . 'heaven' is not an exclusively posthumous condition. He only is completely 'saved' who is delivered here...
...Kind." Though Danilova has settled in the U.S., her most enthusiastic public is in London, the home of sad-faced Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks), her rival queen of ballet. The two danseuses nobles profess the deepest friendship, ever since the day in 1928 when Diaghilev introduced 14-year-old Alice, a promising member of the corps de ballet, to 24-year-old Danilova, the prima ballerina. But each recollects the occasion with a fine underline of feminine malice. Markova considered Danilova as "very handsome, plump. . . ." Danilova remembers Markova as "very thin, very tiny . . . I try to be kind...
...Most Germans realize now or profess to realize that this war was unnecessary and wrong. But they still don't go beyond that to the salient realization that Naziism and everything that went with it was wrong. The main reason the war seems wrong to them is because they lost it. They place the blame on Hitler because he got them into it; if he had won the war few people in Germany today would be concerned with the question of whether the war was right or wrong...