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...Tories. They have been unable to outdo the conservatism of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party. At the same time they have offered no program to offset the "frightening gains" of the mildly socialistic C.C.F. (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation). In Bracken the die-hards saw a realist with statesmanlike qualities that were most eloquently expressed in his backing of the ill-fated Sirois report (TIME, Jan. 27, 1941). Young liberal Tories saw in Bracken at least a partial answer to their demands for vision in government and dynamic leadership...
...always faces distinctively Christian bodies. We must ... not confine ourselves to uttering mere platitudes. We must . . . avoid seeming to put the authority of Christ and His Church behind political and economic schemes which, however laudable in purpose, may be presently impracticable. . . . Actually, I believe that Christ was the great realist. ... He did not propound specific reforms and advocate specific revolts. But what He taught operated as political and social dynamite, because those that believed His word were forced to adopt a revolutionary attitude toward the social and political systems under which they lived...
...realist, he is dogmatic in his insistence that ethics are tools, that thought is relative. To a realist any form of internationalism is a cloak for a dominant group. To him a balanced power is fairer than any World Federation which would be simply a disguise for Anglo-American hegemony. One need not be a Utopian, however, to feel that Spykman's world order excludes any finite goal, any emotional appeal, or any basis for action. Even Karl Marx, after all, had to postulate a goal in which his discouraging dialectic no longer worked...
...Theoretically, Sidney Hillman's job. But the President is a political realist...
...Welcome. It was under the shrewd hazel-grey eyes of an able, forthright realist, Brazil's Foreign Minister and the Conference's administrator, Oswaldo Aranha, that the delegates began assembling in Rio. In fine fettle, Aranha snapped orders to painters, rushed completion of a new five-unit air-conditioning system, supervised the refurbishing of crimson satin wall coverings and rich Aubusson rugs in the Itamaraty Palace, Brazil's Foreign Office. He conferred daily with President Vargas, with taut, ascetic U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and with a stream of other diplomats, some of whom left the Palace with...