WINNING BATTLES WITH IDEAS.
Democracies must find new concepts to capture the imagination of masses, "everywhere seething with aspiration and discontent,” if it is to meet the new revolutions of Nazism and Communism, said Mrs Vera Micheles Dean, Research Director of the American Foreign Policy Association, speaking in New York. "If the democracies fail to do this, they will lie open to totalitarian conquest, "no matter how great their resources of money, armaments and raw materials,” Mrs Dean held "The decisive battles of the 20th century will be won not merely on battlefields—for every military victory carries within it the seeds of future wars —but on the spiritual front; not with tanks and aeroplanes, but with ideas. And the ideas humanity is longing foT are those which will liberate it from bondage to ruthless nationalism and selfish power-politics, setting men free to control not only nature, but their own destinies.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 32, 17 November 1939, Page 4
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