Word: selfishnesses
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...Spirit of a Nation. In the end, U.S. aid to the world would depend on two things. One was the purely selfish consideration set forth last spring by Dean Acheson, then Under Secretary of State. "Measures of relief and reconstruction have been only in part suggested by humanitarianism . . . [it] is chiefly a matter of self-interest." The other consideration: humanitarianism...
...large part the future of the people of that continent. It will also determine in large part whether the free nations of the world can look forward with hope to a peaceful and prosperous future as independent states, or whether they must live in poverty and in fear of selfish totalitarian aggression...
Decrying the prejudiced picture of a "lynch-happy United States populated by the selfish rich" which her fellow-delegates gave to the Youth of the world, Miss Wright laid most of the blame for misrepresentation to the political naivete of the average American and to the State Department's shortsightedness in not sponsoring the delegation...
...Farmer Campbell turn back one page of TIME and read the more modern thought of Eisenhower: "Our competitive system is an essential feature of democracy, but the practice of competition gives no man, no group, the right to act for selfish and immediate gain against the interests of the nation. . . . Banker and borrower . . . politician and farmer . . . must each keep his eye upon the major good...
...Yankees had a selfish reason to complain: there wasn't much profit in facing a team that, in one game last summer, played to only 315 cash customers. Most big-league owners are convinced that St. Louis cannot properly support two big-league teams. They would like to see either the Browns' or the Cardinals' franchise moved to Detroit or Baltimore...