Address at Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan, St. Joseph, MI, October 30 (Reports 019064), 1952
"The picture of 1900 would not be complete, however, unless we found how people on the other side of the tracks were living." [p. 2]
"The picture of 1900 would not be complete, however, unless we found how people on the other side of the tracks were living." [p. 2]
"People who have been slumbering through the centuries are not awakening and saying, "We want a better life." In Europe and here in American the great mass of pople are demanding a better life." [p. 3]
Two world wars are still green in our memories. We are living under the threat of a third great war. We are also living with the nightmare horror of the atom bomb. [p. 1]
Freedom is concerned with maintenance of freedom and with the maintenance and perfection of a free society. [p. 1]
"Men yearn for peace but they still fear, suspect and hate some of their fellow men, particularly those who live beyond the borders of their own country." [p. 1]
"...For between the end of World War II and the start of the Marshall Plan in the spring of 1948, not only had the countries of Eastern Europe fallen under Soviet sway, but also during this same period Mao Tse Tung in China, using compas and T-square mad...
"...In some countries any kind of peace is acceptable, but we in the free world insist that peace must be based on freedom and justice." [p. 1]
I am appreciative of having been invited to speak at this commencement exercise of Michigan State College for a number of reasons... [p. 1]
"The basic cause of world tensions is, of course, the determination of the men in the Kremlin to force their tyrannical way of life on the rest of the world." [p. 1]
"To wage the peace intelligently, we must recognize the nature of the danger which surrounds us." [p. 3]