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Joseph Lash — Part 5
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yp pereete struck 200 yea rs evey, Then tre ‘duce iustri rs Le tevehing.us hor to
“kick the ene my in the crotch, . Sore Sold st
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‘they don't join in “Ke practice nenocwrre
Dur ing ranoeuvres in the, Evercledes, I read Dodd's Hooaray Wils
it at you Cen vo see alt the rroblems swhich erise: ‘et the” wenls. “end, ee .
“Aimperi elist forces can crus h literelis m. Dodd almost des peirs in the book;
'; he as ke whether Wils ons houid heve f inelly turned ‘revolutionary es the “only war
“to haves eved his es piretions;.he even des peirs‘of the” workings ‘of democracy,
‘The story of Wilson is the treredy yebourceols hopes ‘written in Sr reek’ ‘fashion,
: and I hope ‘sincerely we shen't neve to see Ait repseted in our country Yeo le.
fal i -
sree ee
J haven't. hed a “hetter : fron ', Ye ‘in severe! weeks, nag wrote me = ome
“bine ago ‘telling me that when I'd return, “Tta- find thines rentyeethat progress ive
“were now becoming genuinely interested in intellectual pr ens ent i stud: es, end that
“I would no longer be e s olitary torch-bcarer, I hope ad B.S Leceuse yet), nee d
an intellectual movenent with s ubstence efter the wer,~ ne 8
‘In’ the meammbile, mm ‘see where I can't cet tee n inte foreizn service,
“Inetdentally, 4 ie you see "Sesctlenca™? It's the one renerheble filu which hes come
out of the war thus fer;"it-hes® Foliticel understanding end it sces into ments .
“motives ,. I'm doing come philosorhienl reeding, Plato, Locke, e le v, end I've
‘read Hoe’ llering's The Berenders, n interesting - novel abkoubithe lest Gseys of austrian
Social Democracy. _ aa ees rar Phew
. Do ‘you xnow anybody in the Felm. Eeseh ares. ‘hon cor night nq up? “¥Norrigon 7
“Field isnot fer from West Felm’Berch, I'd Like to taly with libere?, propressive,”
.or Jef ftist citizens, and I even wouldn't nind liste x ing to e lovely woman's voice
~ kalcing & about enything s he chose. , a ers oS
SSTtts ‘touch you heve to be $0 far from . everthing ‘in ‘Chanu
“then, Chica ego is nit.fer away, end you crobab] y heve friends th: I've becun
“to ree lize how my own emotional life is linked with 4 or 5 pers ¢n One cen oske
friends everywhere, but there are certs in levels of fee ling woaich ere stirred only
“by certe inp. eopl e. _ And One's life, a pert from the m, grons vacuous,
I hore you menage to reorcenize your lines sand ecvence efter the 185 defeat,
There's no reas on why idees 1 ike the United Nations School sould be put to rest,
“Incidentally, why don't you urce on pF eople thet they try to zet some effective -
‘politicel . education into the erry? The arzy seems to be operating cn e technological
interpretation of history,--machines and mechanics will win the war, But they ought
‘to remember that no eray is great without a Philosphy, that the ermies -of Alexender,
Cromwell, Lincoln, Levin, had e philosophy, knew what they were fighting for... The. =
“army: seens to think thet it can rely on the rahera h Tig ehtang s piri it, _ Beybey Af
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