Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a whole shelf of books on Russia and the Russian problem, ranging in viewpoint from Earl Browder's pro-Soviet War or Peace with Russia? to ex-Communist James Burnham's The Struggle for the World, which regards compromise with Russia as dangerous folly. Hal Lehrman went to the Balkans as a pro-Soviet correspondent, had his eyes opened by the totalitarian steamroller in action, described it convincingly in Russia's Europe...
Chief U.S. Delegate Bill Benton patiently tried to explain the U.S. viewpoint: "We believe in unrestricted mingling of cultures-mutual sharing on the basis of equality. [We don't] want to create one common culture which would standardize the entire world...
...opposite viewpoint will have Niebuhr as a defender. Law Forum officials postulate that he will either claim that all Communism must not be equated with the Russian model and that forms of Communism not based on a police state are theoretically compatible with Christian theology, or else espouse the view that no political system should be required to lean on a theological system...
...successor Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46 say they have only begun to fight. "It is hard to imagine in these days," Weld remarked at news of the committee's viewpoint, "that men of affairs could suggest $200,000 for any plaque of any sort in any location with so many constructive projects crying for support." To Weld the "constructive project" is mandate demands he back to the end has undergone a sort of sly five-month-long slow strangulation...
...Russia's move. If she changes her viewpoint, recognizes other nations' rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness as well as Religious Freedom . . . her opponent might delay the checkmate (moving of white bishop one space forward, diagonally), or at least give Russia another chance (new game...