Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of U.S. citizens will go to bookstores this winter and buy a copy of Dorothy Thompson's new book: Listen, Hans! In her book they will find a brilliant political essay making an argument of first importance to the makers of United Nations policies-and to the citizens who control the makers. She clears great jungled areas of confused thought to state the basic issue...
...fundamental question Miss Thompson poses is "whether the world shall be governed by one or two nations, exploiting it in their own interests, or mutually governed by all for the welfare of all." This question, which presupposes that men's choice will be World Commonwealth (as revolutionary a concept as a real belief in the brotherhood of man), is the question which Americans must ask and then face. Says Miss Thompson...
What is Germany? Miss Thompson broadcast by CBS short wave to Germany every Friday from March to September this year, so effectively that she won the blue ribbon of a special condemnation by Dr. Goebbels and. even the grand prize, a reference in a Hitler speech. She spoke her message to Hans, a close friend of bygone years, striving to persuade Hans and like-minded Germans to desire their own defeat-not individual defeats, but the defeat of Germany as now organized...
...Germans to this desire the United Nations must understand Germany. To understand Germany they must reject the oversimple notion that Germany is incorrigibly militaristic, unalterably bent on domination. Dorothy Thompson analyzes Germany as two-sided, two-minded, schizophrenic. Says she: "The world is sick and tired of German wars that are apparently fought by Germany partly for the purpose of determining through them what the German destiny may be. ... We are all heartily sick of suffering with her. If the German mind cannot make itself up, then we must make it up for her, by force...
Here comes the cosmic-sized rub. How can the United Nations encourage Germany to be a nation in such a family if they do not know what kind of family it is to be? Here Miss Thompson's clarity is as destructive as a blowtorch: "We" cannot help Germany make up her mind until "we" have made up "ours...