Word: spykman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While most students of politics are flooding the presses with frantic expressions of "the great ideals of our democratic way of life," Professor Spykman has written a primer of power for America which is a direct descendant of Machiavelli's handbook for princes. His coolly objective approach to the present crisis is a relief both from the disciples of sweetness and light and from the evangelists of American imperialism. The author, Professor to International Relations at Yale, devotes his efforts to contemporary problems of American foreign policy. The major task of the book is to define America's position among...
Among the renowned outsiders participating in the Institute will be Archibald MacLeish, director of the OFF; Nicholas J. Spykman, author of "American Strategy in World Politics"; censor Byron Price; John Foster of the British Embassy; and Major Alexander P. de Seversky, author of "Victory Through Air Power." Walter Lippman is expected to attend but is not scheduled to speak...
...Spykman accepts the fact "that there will always be conflict, and that war will remain a necessary instrument in the preservation of a balance of power...
Professor Spykman believes that a world federation is "still far off," and feels that "this is perhaps just as well. . . . Diplomacy would become lobbying and log rolling, and international wars would be come civil wars and insurrections, but man would continue to fight for what he thought worth-while and violence would not disappear from the earth." But his main objection to theories for the future is that "they provide very little guidance for the practical problems which will face the United States on the day of the armistice." On that day, he says, "there will be neither world state...
...some, realism so simple may well seem as devastating as frost in a hothouse for orchids. But such people may take comfort in the thought that Professor Spykman is not infallible, that the cult of realism has its own limitations and coldbloodedness leads to its own kind of distortion. To others, tired of statesmanship by euphemism and eye-catching phonies, Spykman's plain talking seems a bracing corrective...