state. Also, it is not possible to
supply the people with sufficient
quantities of water and electricity.
Labor solidarity does not exist. "In
contrast to Europe, a labor leader
cannot, in the manner of the mil–
itary, rely on the support of his
troops." (Question: On what so–
cialistic troops did the German la–
bor leaders lean during the Aden–
auer election?)
The railroad system is run down.
Nutrition is bad; mice were fed
with the bread which Americans
have to eat and this diet was very
harmful to them. This miserable
bread is probably the reason why
so much ice cream is consumed
in the U.S. Nowhere
in
the world
is the state of health as bad as in
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the New World; and one-tenth of
the nation is insane.
Culture, too, is in a bad way.
"An order of rights in the Euro–
pean sense" does not exist. Teach–
ers often prefer to be "dishwashers"
and are treated "like robots" by
the Board of Education. The pro–
fessors are stupid and it is there–
fore necessary to import them from
other countries
"in
the manner
formerly done with soldiers."
"How deep the academic profes–
sion has sunk" can be seen from
the fact that the average income
among teachers is only $4,860. The
American university "has always
been autocratic." The American
people do not read. The ultimate
authority quoted is Gallup. The
Should Britain break with the U.S.A. and adopt a new foreign policy?
Is General Templer losing the struggle in Malaya?
What makes people join and then leave the Communist Party?
How did the myth of "Bloomsbury" arise?
Why do some British critics dislike major American films?
Is Ice Pantomime the beginning of a new art form?
These and other subjects are discull8ed by
well-known writers
in
BRITAIN'S LEADING MONTHLY
THE TWENTIETH
Century
FEBRUARY 1954
Denis Healey, M.P.:
The Owl and the Bulldog
Victor Purcell:
General Templer
A SPecial Correspondent:
On Leaving the Pa:t}'
Franz Borkenau:
A
Thomist on LeninIsm
Clive Bell:
What was "Bloomsbury"?
David Paul:
The Borgia Phenomenon
Marjorie Bremner:
From Here to Eternity
Richard Findlater:
Art
on Ice
FORMERLY THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
&
AFTER
1877
1954
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