Problems of Revolutionary World
MOSELY, PHILIP E.
Problems of a Revolutionary World The New Dimensions of Peace. Reviewed by Philip E. Mosely By Chester Bowles. former director, Russian Institute, Harper. 391 pp. $4.50. Columbia...
...Wise and enduring decisions cannot be reached without a long perspective, and it is this perspective which Mr...
...Both Moscow and Washington have come to realize that in the struggle for the future the deciding ballot may well be cast by the uncommitted "third of mankind...
...Columbia University Although published in time to state the basic issues facing U.S...
...Bowles supplies in an inspiring measure...
...Bowles calls on his fellow-citizens to accept the role of leaders in this great, perhaps greatest revolution...
...Beyond supplying an inspiring perspective to the challenges of Communism and anti-colonial revolt...
...The one revolution which Americans usually overlook is the American revolution, the release of energies and soaring of hopes which is its basic meaning...
...While maintaining and developing great armed strength, we must escape from a condition of over-fascination with power and with an obsessive reliance on military pacts...
...From our plenty and high productivity, we must do far more through enlarged economic aid, planned over a decade or more, to help other peoples reach their ambition for expanding their economic and psychological opportunities along the path of human and national dignity, and in growing partnership with the free world...
...He sees better than almost any other observer why the small numbers of the renovators of an ancient people feel obliged to ignore the two-world struggle going on outside the subcontinent, even to the extent of denying the reality of the power struggle...
...Bowles sees the world caught in the competition between divergent and incompatible revolutions for the hopes of mankind...
...policy in an election year, Ambassador Bowles's forceful presentation of the fateful choices before us makes even more timely reading today, months after the ballots have been counted...
...Mr: Bowles makes many hard-hitting and persuasive proposals of policy...
...Only revolutionary thinking can face up to the problems of a revolutionary world, and Mr...
...And "Bandung" is more important to us as a state of mind than as a political grouping...
...In its Chinese version, Bolshevism appears with fresh powers of challenge and attraction and in non-Communist Asia its claims to open a path out of social stagnation are widely accepted as genuine even by those who would not survive its triumph...
...Only a full reading of it can give the flavor of remote yet strangely familiar human hopes which now make American decisions a critical clement in the choices which many peoples in other continents will have to make day by day between the ways of totalitarianism and those of freedom...
...Bowles's searching review of America's role and responsibilities, present and prospective, in shaping the future of a world we can enjoy living in...
...Bowles has caught the spirit of the Indian transformation...
...We must do far more to share the cultural, educational and technical resources of our society with peoples who are reshaping their societies in order to control their own destinies in the modern world...
...Within the sphere of its rule it has turned cold, rigid and militarist, but in many other parts of the world the warm-hearted illusions with which it gained power continue to nourish Soviet ambitions on the swampy soil of despair...
...No summary can do justice to Mr...
...The Bolshevik pattern of revolution continues to exert both pull and pressure beyond the bounds of its totalitarian writ...
...He makes it clear why it is more important to the future of Asia, and therefore of America, to help the Indian reformers shape the future of their people along lines of free development, than to nag at their determination not to "play ball" in a power contest which they cannot greatly influence...
Vol. 40 • April 1957 • No. 14
