In April 1943, Robert van Gelder, the New York Times book editor, used his regular column, “Speaking of Books,” to hail a recent bestseller. The book, One World (1943), by the 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie, had provoked an unprecedented sensation. Ten days after it appeared, the little volume was jumping out of the stores like no book before it in the history of publishing. The story of Willkie's journey around the world in late 1942, One World would eventually reach millions of Americans.
Willkie enchanted them with the story of his encounter with the people of the world, from a Baghdad shopkeeper and a Soviet factory superintendent to Charles De Gaulle, the Shah of Iran, Joseph Stalin, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, while also challenging readers to embrace the new spirit of.
Our • 0- erna lona The Month in Review: All Honor to the Fighting Miners 'Mission to Moscow': Frameup Wendell Willkie's ProgralD By Felix Morrow What the Peacemakers Did to Europe By Terence Phelan Europe and America Roosevelt's ~~Hold. The Line' The Shipbuilding Scandal The Dutch East Indies by Leon Trotsky by William F. Warde by Joseph Hansen. Vashikaran mantra telugu books download.
And extend access to Journal of Public Health Policy ® www.jstor.org One Worldor No World: The Visionof WendellWillkie Thereis greatconcernaboutthepossibilityof nuclearwaramong Colombianchildrenandadolescentsa,ndthisinfluencestheirway of lookingtowardthefuture.Theythinkaboutnuclearwar,make theirlifeplansin lightof preoccupationwiththepossibilityof the destructionof humanitya, ndinmanycasesbelievetheydonothave a future. - OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY * SUMMER I987 creatingnuclearwar capability,and has an importantinfluenceon everyone.
This fear of the destructionof humanitywas expressedin a recent speechto theUnitedNations bySovietForeignMinisterShevardnadze: We see the glimmerof lightin the fact that at the time crucialfor mankindthe peoplesand an increasingnumberof governmentsare becomingawareof the need to adopt a new way of thinkingin line with the realitiesof the nuclearand space age. The time is coming when considerationsof groups, blocs or ideologiesarebeginningto giveway to the understandingthatpeace is a supremevalue.Onlyif peaceis translatedfromdeclarationsinto practicalaction is therea chancefor survival.( 3 ) WENDELL WILLKIE: ONE WORLD This call for a new way of thinking,which the presentAdministration andthe Congresshaveyetto achieve,was firstbroughtto worldattention by an outstandingRepublicanstatesmanmorethan 40 yearsago. Wendell Willkiewas a nativeof Elwood, Indiana,who becamea successful WallStreetcorporationlawyerandthepresidentof Commonwealthand SouthernCorporation,a huge utilitiesholdingcompany.A Democratin the early 30s, WillkieturnedRepublicanbecauseof what he felt to be unwise governmentrestraintson businessenterprise.As a Republican presidentialcandidatein I940, opposing PresidentFranklinD. Roosevelt'sbid for a thirdterm,Willkiereceiveda popularvote of morethan zz million,thelargesteverreceivedbya Republicanupto thattime( 4 ). In I94z, WendellWillkie circled the globe in a U.S.
Army plane, accompaniedby the publisherGardnerCowles,Jr.,thejournalistJoseph Barnes,andrepresentativeosf theU.S.ArmyandNavy.He hadanopportunityto see andtalkto hundredsof peoplein morethana dozennations, and to talk intimatelywith many of the world's leaders.A year later, Willkie published One World,a fascinatingaccount of his experiences and condusions ( 5 ). This is a remarkablebook, forthright,informative, and, consideringthe fact it was written beforethe crisisof the nuclear age, extraordinarilyperceptiveand statesmanlike.It is eminentlyworth reading,from coverto cover;we shall quote, for reasonsof space,only his majorconclusions: On theMiddleEast Thisproblem,as it seemsto me, of bringingthe peoplesof the MiddleEastinto the twentiethcenturyin technicalandindustrial termsis, in turn,intimatelylinkedwith the questionof political self-governmenMt. AnyWesternerws homI metandtalkedwithin thesecountriestoldmetheseveralreasons,validin theirminds,for the extremelyprimitivebackwardnesisn which most Arabslive. ThesereasonsrangedfromthechargethatArabsactuallypreferto die youngto the statementthattheirreligionpreventsthemfrom accumulatintghecapitalwithwhichto maketheimprovementshey needin theirway of life. To my mind,thesereasonsweremostly nonsense.Give any ArabsI saw a chanceto feel that they were runningtheirownshow,andtheywouldchangetheworldtheylive in. I 4) On China We must not expect Chineseidealsof personallibertyand democraticgovernmentto be exactlythe same as ours. Someof theirideas may seem to us too radical, others may seem ridiculouslyarchaic.
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In April 1943, Robert van Gelder, the New York Times book editor, used his regular column, “Speaking of Books,” to hail a recent bestseller. The book, One World (1943), by the 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie, had provoked an unprecedented sensation. Ten days after it appeared, the little volume was jumping out of the stores like no book before it in the history of publishing. The story of Willkie's journey around the world in late 1942, One World would eventually reach millions of Americans.
Willkie enchanted them with the story of his encounter with the people of the world, from a Baghdad shopkeeper and a Soviet factory superintendent to Charles De Gaulle, the Shah of Iran, Joseph Stalin, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, while also challenging readers to embrace the new spirit of.
Our • 0- erna lona The Month in Review: All Honor to the Fighting Miners 'Mission to Moscow': Frameup Wendell Willkie's ProgralD By Felix Morrow What the Peacemakers Did to Europe By Terence Phelan Europe and America Roosevelt's ~~Hold. The Line' The Shipbuilding Scandal The Dutch East Indies by Leon Trotsky by William F. Warde by Joseph Hansen. Vashikaran mantra telugu books download.
And extend access to Journal of Public Health Policy ® www.jstor.org One Worldor No World: The Visionof WendellWillkie Thereis greatconcernaboutthepossibilityof nuclearwaramong Colombianchildrenandadolescentsa,ndthisinfluencestheirway of lookingtowardthefuture.Theythinkaboutnuclearwar,make theirlifeplansin lightof preoccupationwiththepossibilityof the destructionof humanitya, ndinmanycasesbelievetheydonothave a future. - OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY * SUMMER I987 creatingnuclearwar capability,and has an importantinfluenceon everyone.
This fear of the destructionof humanitywas expressedin a recent speechto theUnitedNations bySovietForeignMinisterShevardnadze: We see the glimmerof lightin the fact that at the time crucialfor mankindthe peoplesand an increasingnumberof governmentsare becomingawareof the need to adopt a new way of thinkingin line with the realitiesof the nuclearand space age. The time is coming when considerationsof groups, blocs or ideologiesarebeginningto giveway to the understandingthatpeace is a supremevalue.Onlyif peaceis translatedfromdeclarationsinto practicalaction is therea chancefor survival.( 3 ) WENDELL WILLKIE: ONE WORLD This call for a new way of thinking,which the presentAdministration andthe Congresshaveyetto achieve,was firstbroughtto worldattention by an outstandingRepublicanstatesmanmorethan 40 yearsago. Wendell Willkiewas a nativeof Elwood, Indiana,who becamea successful WallStreetcorporationlawyerandthepresidentof Commonwealthand SouthernCorporation,a huge utilitiesholdingcompany.A Democratin the early 30s, WillkieturnedRepublicanbecauseof what he felt to be unwise governmentrestraintson businessenterprise.As a Republican presidentialcandidatein I940, opposing PresidentFranklinD. Roosevelt'sbid for a thirdterm,Willkiereceiveda popularvote of morethan zz million,thelargesteverreceivedbya Republicanupto thattime( 4 ). In I94z, WendellWillkie circled the globe in a U.S.
Army plane, accompaniedby the publisherGardnerCowles,Jr.,thejournalistJoseph Barnes,andrepresentativeosf theU.S.ArmyandNavy.He hadanopportunityto see andtalkto hundredsof peoplein morethana dozennations, and to talk intimatelywith many of the world's leaders.A year later, Willkie published One World,a fascinatingaccount of his experiences and condusions ( 5 ). This is a remarkablebook, forthright,informative, and, consideringthe fact it was written beforethe crisisof the nuclear age, extraordinarilyperceptiveand statesmanlike.It is eminentlyworth reading,from coverto cover;we shall quote, for reasonsof space,only his majorconclusions: On theMiddleEast Thisproblem,as it seemsto me, of bringingthe peoplesof the MiddleEastinto the twentiethcenturyin technicalandindustrial termsis, in turn,intimatelylinkedwith the questionof political self-governmenMt. AnyWesternerws homI metandtalkedwithin thesecountriestoldmetheseveralreasons,validin theirminds,for the extremelyprimitivebackwardnesisn which most Arabslive. ThesereasonsrangedfromthechargethatArabsactuallypreferto die youngto the statementthattheirreligionpreventsthemfrom accumulatintghecapitalwithwhichto maketheimprovementshey needin theirway of life. To my mind,thesereasonsweremostly nonsense.Give any ArabsI saw a chanceto feel that they were runningtheirownshow,andtheywouldchangetheworldtheylive in. I 4) On China We must not expect Chineseidealsof personallibertyand democraticgovernmentto be exactlythe same as ours. Someof theirideas may seem to us too radical, others may seem ridiculouslyarchaic.