Word: utopians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hidden Kinship. When the U.S., aroused to Communism's dangers, quickly took up the anti-Communist crusade of "good nations" against "bad nations," Niebuhr fears that it underestimated the attraction and the complication of the "utopian illusions" which Communism borrows from liberal society. The rise of Communism he compares to the rise of Islam and its challenge to Christian civilization in the Middle Ages. Communism, like Islam, has exploited many just and legitimate grievances against the society it found, and the fight against it is automatically complex and devious. It may be impossible to stamp...
...crimes nor for its astonishing inventions, but for its having been the first age since the dawn of civilization, some five or six thousand years back, in which people dared to think it practicable to make . . . the ideal of welfare for all a practical objective instead of a mere Utopian dream...
...election time, it would be Utopian to expect everyone to take more than a narrow view of his own interests. Looked at in that lazy but human light, the Tories ask for more hard work before they can promise rewards, while Labor offers the comforts as well as the inconveniences of inflation, plus the vague assurance that somehow everyone will be looked after...
Socialist leader Kurt Schumacher, Adenauer's implacable political foe, has a more dramatic vision than the Chancellor. Schumacher better understands Communist aims and tactics. His Utopian goal is a "big Europe," a continent free from the Atlantic to the Soviet border; he considers the "little Europe" envisaged by projects like the Schuman Plan a trap on the road to his larger objective. This all-or-nothing attitude makes the Socialist boss a hard man for the West's statesmen to deal with. It also cuts down Schumacher's popularity in western Germany...
...present, President Conant told graduating seniors yesterday in his Baccalaureate Sermon, "all talk of a real settlement with the Soviet Union ... must be regarded as Utopian...