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Before the U.S. goes very far on the road toward leadership of a democratic world, it will need a definition of democracy that the world will understand (see above). Last week at Moscow, George Marshall made a grab for such a definition. He told the Council of Foreign Ministers: "To us a society is not democratic if men . . . are not free to express their beliefs and convictions without fear that they may be snatched away from their home and family," and without fear "of being denied the right to work or deprived of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
MacLeish, a Harvard Law School graduate, first curator of the Nieman Fellows, and former Librarian of Congress, was further reported as saying that UNESCO is committed to the proposition that peoples holding opposing and conflicting views can live together if they understand each other's positions...
...Generalissimo quotes Confucius: "The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they must not be expected to understand." From this, Chiang derives a guiding maxim: "To know is difficult, to act is easy." As developed in the supporting text, this maxim envisions a knowledgeable elite (the Kuomintang) which will "know" and rule the unenlightened mass of the people, according to the ancient precepts of "harmony," "benevolence," "justice," and "love...
...that any year he cleared more than $1,000 he felt lucky. He understood that he was getting $6,000 a week at the moment, but: "A single man pays out almost 90% of it for taxes. . . . My agent gets 10 . . . my business manager. . . ." He wasn't complaining, understand-"but people have the wrong idea about movie salaries...
...week's end, Fowler McCormick, chairman of the board of International Harvester Co., showed how, in a way everyone could understand. As Young Henry Ford had two months ago, Fowler McCormick cut the prices of his products (tractors, trucks, farm machinery) a round $20,000,000 a year, almost 5% of his gross sales. Harvester is not worried about a drop in sales-yet. But, said McCormick: "We decided to give the benefit [of high earnings] to customers rather than stockholders or employees because the time is here to recognize customers as an integral part of a business...