PLEAS FOR EUROPE
Thomas, Norman
Pleas For Europe CROSSROADS OF TWO CONTINENTS, by F. Gross. Columbia University Press. $2. REEDUCATING GERMANY, by Werner Richter. University of Chicago Press. $3.50. Reviewed by Norman...
...It must be a part of a larger process in which men, women, and social forces in Germany will share...
...The reeducating of Germany will not be the work of foreign teachers supported by foreign guns...
...Americans who like myself went from the first grade through high school almost wholly under women teachers will be interested in the author's opinion of the role women may play in the reeducational process...
...It is to be recommended partly because of its Teutonic attention to certain of the deeper problems of education and the relation to it of both Church and state which most of us try to ignore...
...Reviewed by Norman Thomas THESE two books by European'exiles are objective, constructive, and free from extreme bitterness and hate which deprive much of the current writing by refugees of value...
...My main emotion on finishing them both was one of deep regret that their knowledge and insight now seem likely to be unheeded by those who make a desolation and call it a peace...
...But proceedings at Yalta and Stalin's program in Eastern Europe would seem to doom Dr...
...As his title indicates, his principal concern is for Eastern Europe and he gives evidence of more popular support for such a federation than I had thought existed...
...Gross' wise suggestions—at least for long and painful years...
...Gross, in Crossroads of Two Continents, argues soundly and persuasively for the practicability, indeed the indispensability, of regional federations for the economic and political health of the smaller nations of the world, particularly on the European continent, and their necessity for any genuine independence from Moscow and London...
...It does a far better job than some American reviewers admit by showing that the educational failures which contributed to Hitler's triumph were not peculiar to Germany or unnoticed and unopposed by all German educators and officials of the Weimar Republic...
...Werner Richter's Reed-ucatina Germany is less definite in its suggestions...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 15
