Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...custom, nor a piece of bad luck. It is the normal situation that the U.S. has to face in the three-fourths of the world which is industrially backward. That three-fourths, as the British and others have learned, cannot be kept indefinitely in a state of tutelage to Western ideas. It will move into the stream of nationalism, industrialism and progress. When it gets there, it flounders. The Communists then play a dual role. They increase the confusion and hold out a "packaged" hope of progress-their kind of progress...
...Communists in China welcomed war because it hastened the undermining of society that Western progress had begun. The Bolton report describes the process...
...Western leaders, convinced that China is about to fall, are sorry for the Chinese. It does not occur to them to be sorry for themselves and for their children, who may have to fight to retrieve what has been lost in the last month in Asia...
...Medieval Western man agreed or consented to the substance of known and constant law. Modern Western man has never fully known his future law, for it is always still to be made. Agreement or consent is given not to the substance, but to the authoritative source that has the right to make it. In order to establish democracy, one has to establish not only free choice of representatives; one has first to establish the legislative function that representatives are to exercise. The implanting of democracy in custom-ruled societies requires simultaneous performance of two great tasks which, in the West...
...Truman Doctrine the U.S. accepted responsibility in the world struggle against Communism. On the relatively easy battleground of Western Europe it is gaining, slowly and not surely. On the larger battleground it is losing...