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...TIME, by Robert Strausz-Hupé. The distinguished director of the University of Pennsylvania's Foreign Policy Research Institute looks back without anger at his youth amid the ruins of a Middle Europe shattered by World War I, weighs his own nostalgia for a lost bourgeois civilization against the dynamics of the atomic...
...ROBERT STRAUSZ-HUPÉ University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia...
...TIME, by Robert Strausz-Hupé. The distinguished director of the University of Pennsylvania's Foreign Policy Research Institute looks back without anger at his youth amid the ruins of a Middle-Europe shattered by World War I, weighs his own nostalgia for a lost bourgeois civilization against the dynamics of the atomic...
...Strausz-Hupé came to the U.S. as a tutor-guardian to a no-good Salzburg aristocrat who was older than himself, worked in the art department of Marshall Field's in Chicago (landscapes and jolly monks), as a runner in Wall Street (with social weekends on Long Island), finally as a customer's man and-after a return to Europe-as an investment banker. This could have been a simple immigrant's success story. But Strausz-Hupé, however frivolous his youth, had retained the gravitas of a European education. He met Historian Oswald Spengler only...
...hawk against the rising threat of Hitlerism, as later he was to be unpopular as a premature anti-Communist-he is still firmly opposed to negotiation with Russia except from a position of towering U.S. strength, and suspicious even of quiescent coexistence. But Strausz-Hupé has been considered wise and knowledgeable enough to have been consulted on many weighty affairs, including the writing of West Germany's constitution. He urged Navy Secretary Forrestal to make a show of American power in China in 1946, and argues that such a move might have averted the staggering U.S. defeat that...