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...majority of the professors supported large sections of current American policy, but opinions varied widely. The most extreme views were held by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, who called for "the immediate cessation of the Korean War by the withdrawal of our troops, complete disarmament, and a clause written into the constitution of every country outlawing...
...Sorokin admitted that his plan for peace might not be practicable. "If not," he continued, "all the easy palliatives of Hoover and Taft lead to full-scale destruction. It is better to prepare for full war than subscribe to these...
...What we need," said Sorokin, "is a new creative foreign policy. America has a real chance in human history to construct this kind of a policy. There is still a chance." The U. S. would be making a start, he feels, by sharing atomic resources as well as food...
Behind those proposals in Sorokin's feeling that "our government is no less aggressive than the Soviet government. We are already 75 percent totalitarian." It is not the Russian or American people, he contended, but the rulers who are behind all the trouble...
...would not be so bad, Sorokin said, "if Truman and his Politburo fought Stalin and his Politburo." Sorokin favors starting the draft at 60 and working downwards. "It is the old, conscienceless, reasonless fellows who are cynically sacrificing our youth. The 18-year-olds are the last people I would pick...