Learned Lemming of Appeasement

Many years ago, a wise teacher warned me: “Most people think logically enough. They differ in their basic assumptions.” This bit of advice came back in reading the Edward Douglass White Lectures on Citizenship at Louisiana State University in 1961, which Professor Schuman of Williams College has now brought out as his little volume on the Cold War.

Frederick L. Schuman is a political science product of the late Charles E. Merriam at the University of Chicago. He has traveled much, read everything, and he writes well. He opposed German National Socialism effectively. He has published three previous books about the Soviet Union. One might have expected him to be in the front rank of the defenders of freedom against creeping Communist totalitarianism. Instead, he stands with those who, by urging concessions to “fanatical disciples of a cult of revolutionary subversion and messianic universalism” (his expression), are leading the American people to a place where we shall have to fight a catastrophic war or surrender.

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Many years ago, a wise teacher warned me: “Most people think logically enough. They differ in their basic assumptions.” This bit of advice came back in reading the Edward Douglass White Lectures on Citizenship at Louisiana State University in 1961, which Professor Schuman of Williams College has now brought out as his little volume on the Cold War.

Frederick L. Schuman is a political science product of the late Charles E. Merriam at the University of Chicago. He has traveled much, read everything, and he writes well. He opposed German National Socialism effectively. He has published three previous books about the Soviet Union. One might have expected him to be in the front rank of the defenders of freedom against creeping Communist totalitarianism. Instead, he stands with those who, by urging concessions to “fanatical disciples of a cult of revolutionary subversion and messianic universalism” (his expression), are leading the American people to a place where we shall have to fight a catastrophic war or surrender.