World Events

Abstract

Through the past forty years the masters of United States policy. making have been gagging on a bitter pill: the emergence of a social pattern which differs in essential respects from that which now exists in the United States. The pill was doubly bitter because these political spokesmen were suffering from an egomania which led them to insist that the American Way of Life was the one and only true pattern which a moral and intelligent human being could follow.

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