Visits with Butch and Peggy. Fate and the future. Harvard. Impending war: before war breaks out, they take little interest in international politics, but as soon as war comes in Europe, everyone takes it for granted they will get in. "It is tragic because so unnecessary. There's FDR sitting up nights over a war instead of overhauling the New Deal. What we desperately need in this country is to reline our mental upholstery. Take war off the front page and put economic and social progress back in. The battle between the CIO and AFL means more to us than the Maginot Line. A strong united labor movement is our Maginot Line -- a spiritual line of democratic steel.... he Civil War with its aftermath of finance capitalism disfigured democracy, trampling it in the gutter, crushing humanism and abetter society to the dust covering its piles of gold...." Hopes for a future of a democratic socialist Europe.
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