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Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, and Charles R. Cherington '35, instructor of Government, discussed "America's Role at San Francisco" in a forum sponsored by the Post War Council held last night in a packed Lowell House Junior Common Room...
Taking an unusual approach to the problem, Professor Sorokin expressed a "cold-blooded" and pessimistic view of the conference. "I don't think it can secure lasting peace,' he stated, "with only D plus and C minus statesmen there...
...Francisco conference fails, as Sorokin thinks it will, he predicts that America will become a great, imperialistic empire. "And I wish every success to such an attempt of the United States." declared the explosive sociologist, "because it is better for the United States to be imperialistic than for any other country in the world...
...political or economic machinations-not Yalta nor Dumbarton Oaks nor any other agreement-can give us lasting peace so long as the corpse of the capitalist economy continues to exist." Thus declared Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, speaking last night together with Wassily W. Leontief, associate professor of Economics, and Abbott P. Usher '04, professor of Economics, on the topic "Is the planned economy 'the Road to Serfdom'?" at the first forum of the newly-organized Harvard Political Science Forum...
...however," stressed Sorokin, "a partisan of totalitarian economy. I am merely 'a conservative Christian anarchist'; I do not like any government." With this declaration, Harvard's stormy sociologist clarified his position in the controversy that, is currently raging over Friedrich A. Hayek's new book "The Road to Serfdom...