Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Kotschnig charged that, while thoroughly "debunking" the World War, the older generation failed to learn and teach the lessons of that war; it failed to solve the democratic problem of providing equal educational and employment opportunities for youth; its teaching "has tended to undermine and destroy the sense of values of the younger generation"; it failed to match the dictators' power of evoking the loyalties and purposefulness of youth; and now it fails to realize that deep-seated changes in its own attitude and teaching are required to meet the problem...
...your several articles on the "Town Hall Meeting of Youth," sponsored by the American Youth Congress for this coming weekend, you have conveyed implicitly, and probably unintentionally, that the Harvard Liberal Union was in sympathy with the Youth Congress. We would like to point out that the programs of the two organizations conflict in many respects. The American Youth Congress opposes American aid to England; it has opposed at every step the national defense program; at present it is opposing the House Resolution 1776, and is advocating the repeal of conscription. The Harvard Liberal Union favors aid to England...
...addition to these programmatic differences, there is a fundamental difference of approach to these pressing problems. The American Youth Congress has adopted the characteristically oversimplified interpretation of events presented by the "leftist" youth movement today. Carried to its logical extreme it finds its expression in such things as the following songs which will be sung quite seriously by some of the delegates to the Washington Conference...
...Youth Act becomes real," but the Youth Congress has isolated itself more effectively both from public opinion and from possible support of some of their suggestions by their all-or-nothing attitude...
Since the American Youth Congress is so much in disagreement with the Liberal Union, why then does the Liberal Union send delegates to Washington? The answer to this is simple, when one remembers that the Liberal Union has a program which it is endeavoring to put forward to American youth. The Washington meeting affords to the Liberal Union an opportunity to express itself to other young people, some of whom at least are aware of the futility of the program advocated by the Youth Congress. In short, if we send our members to speak for us in Washington...