Let the people know, the plain answers to the questions that confuse us are needed for Victory in the war today and in the peace tomorrow, by Norman Angell. Pub. by The Viking press in 1943.��
The final decisions in politics, Norman Angell reminds us, are made by the average busy citizens, by voters who cannot in the nature of things be specialists or experts in the matters they decide. Those matters just now must include intricate problems of military and naval strategy, economic problems of inflation, taxation, price control, labor rights; and tomorrow they will included the position to be taken by this country in the political, racial, and religious conflicts of the world. (Note to ebayers: all this was written by this author in 1943).
Can the butcher, the baker, the garage mechanic possibly make the right decisions? Norman Angell says Yes! They do not need expert knowledge; they need nothing more than straight thinking and an understanding of the "saving simplicities," the broad principles of human association.
He show that the appalling disasters of the last 30 years could have been avoided if men had applied to politics the knowledge which nearly everyone already possesses. He shows, for example, why isolationism, far from keeping war away, was actually a factor in making war inevitable. He points out that there can be no individual security until we recognize a simple truth: that we must jointly guarantee the other fellow's right to life. He tells us how these principles can be applied to shape the future to our own good ends.
Here are plain answers to the questions that men everywhere- the cynics and the doubters as well as the confident and enlightened-are asking about the war and the peace.
Condition: Has dust jacket with some tears. Previous owners signature on inside fly. 245 pages otherwise in good shape
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