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enough to find out what was going ^ on in the world. A few people took ■ the pains to study Russian and live with the Russians in their villages. But only a few. Those who made this deep study of Russia knew that Germany when she attacked Russia would not succeed in destroying her. They were about the only ones who did know it. Ninety-nine per cent of us in the United States had been given a totally false impression of Russia because of what had been published in our newspapers or magazines. Wc and most of the rest of the world had been taught by the press to believe that Russians were either mystics, artists, or illiterate peasants, and that nearly all of them were born without any ability to handle the tools of modern civilization. Our engineers came back with strange stories of how the Russian farmers mishandled tractors. What a surprising awakening it was For us to be assured all of a sudden in the fall of 1941 by Averill Harriman, Bill Batt and others who had visited the factories that the Russians were doing a good job under more difficult conditions than any modern nation had ever had to face. The lack of this knowledge of the true Russia could either have cost us our national life or the lives of millions of our boys.
The difference between the liberal Democrat and the reactionary Republican is as follows: The liberal Democrat knows that the people's revolution is on the march and that he will have to run fast to keep up. The reactionary Republican knows that something is happening but he
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can't quite figure out what it is, and so he runs around shrieking alarm, hoping in his wild panic to gain some measure of security for himself, his wealth, and the wealth of his children. Many of these people are no more vicious than a chicken flopping around on the ground with its head cut off. They don't discern the trend of the times. They are blinded by passion and fear. They are psychopathic cases or "plain nuts." Of course, there is another group that is subject to stronger condemnation than these poor frightened people of great wealth. This second group discerns the signs of the times clearly enough but goes ahead and says coldbloodedly in the spirit of Louis XV, "I am going to make all the money 1 can. Why not? After me the deluge." This kind of man oftentimes eases his conscience by giving large sums of money to charities. Nevertheless, from a Christian point of view he is subject to condemnation because seeing the signs of the times he fails to use his influence to make the inevitable revolution beneficent, striving instead for short-lived power in the oldfashioned way.
A most glaring failure to discern the trend of the times came after World War I when the United States suddenly shifted from a debtor to a creditor nation. Germany was the big debtor of the world and the United States was the ultimate big creditor. It was vital that the United States learn to act as a creditor nation must act. When the United States refused to do so, it was inevitable that Germany in her desperation would en