Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking as "a citizen of New York" from his "own fireside" at Hyde Park he broadcast a pre-election appeal. Its theme was: "Social or economic gain made by one administration may and often does evaporate into thin air under the next. . . . We have to have reasonable continuity in liberal government to get permanent results. . . .* If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism and communism aided, unconsciously perhaps, by old-line Tory Republicanism will grow in strength...
...responsibility and must be our destiny to prove to ourselves and to a suffering and disillusioned world that democracy can exist, can grow, and can flourish in this modern age. This is not a responsibility that can be shouldered merely by the adoption of many untried social reforms, but must be solved by hard work, by intelligent citizenship, by widespread public education, by constant vigilance, by rejection of old prejudices and outworn ideas and by a determination on the part of all the people to preserve their individual liberties so that their faith in democracy will be justified...
...Paris. Instead, French Premier Edouard Daladier flew twice to London. Last week amends were about to be made. The Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax, are to spend November 23-25 in Paris. Under the outward show of a "purely social visit," Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier will try to advance toward "general European appeasement" from the stage reached at Munich...
Belisle concludes that the problem is one of "interpenetration of seeming social opposites," of "practical social engineering in community and public relations," and of "organization of complex human resources into relatively simple individual action...
...Democratic losses are partly the normal mid term reaction, considerably accentuated by the fact that Americans do not like depressions. Finally, the repudiation is not generally that of liberal New Deal principles, which were endorsed since many Republican standard-bearers were fully committed to such untraditional doctrines as social security, collective bargaining, farm and unemployed relief. What has been repudiated are the spending-lending program, the radically left-wing leanings of the administration, and its efforts to forge a nation-wide Tammany...