Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pessimistic was Diplomat Kennedy: ". . . Continuation of the war will be catastrophic for the political, social and economic life of the peoples of the world." Prophetic was Politician Kennedy: "The problems that are going to affect the people of the United States ... are already so great and becoming greater by the war that they should be handled by a man it won't take two years to educate...
...Throughout the world the whole philosophy of individual liberty is under attack. In haste to bring under control the sweeping social forces unleashed ... by the World War, by the tremendous advances in productive technology during the last quarter century, by the failure to march with a growing sense of justice, peoples and governments are blindly wounding . . . those fundamental human liberties which have been the foundation and inspiration of progress...
...safeguards, where justice requires no striving. . . . Such dreams are not without value and one could join in them with satisfaction but for the mind troubled by recollection of human frailty, the painful human advance through history, the long road which humanity still has to travel to economic and social perfections...
With the New Deal's emergency measures for recovery he would not quarrel. But because a nation's greatest moral, spiritual, economic and governmental change is involved in a shift in its fundamental social ideas, the big question remained: Does the New Deal represent such a shift? Said Herbert Hoover: "This is solely an issue. Honest men will treat it as such." Analyzing New Deal policies in currency, in finance, in agriculture he found such a change; a similar change in its insistence that the U. S. social system is outworn and in its tendency to increasing regimentation...
...which means that it should be the best available, and is . . . Hyman Levy's "Modern Science" is a difficult but rewarding study of the physical sciences. . . Agnes Newton Keith's "Land Below the Wind" is a chronicle of four years in North Bornce. . . . Phil Stong's "Horses and American Social life and manners. Altogether a good thing. . . Carl Carmer's "The Hudson" is a fine compound of history and legend by one of our best investigators of regional America. . . . Granville Bick's "Figures of Transition" is an intelligent and illuminating study of six English writers...