INTERNATIONAL: Run-Yanking

INTERNATIONAL

Bun-Yanking

"There is a special reason," said Professor Halvdan Koht at the Nobel Institute in Oslo last week, "why peace prizes so often have gone to America. ... It is true that the United States sometimes has pursued an imperialistic policy, a natural consequence of industrial capitalism, but they have also fostered the most vigorous idealism in the world. The American people have an instinctive faith in the perfectibility of man. An ideal is to an American not a distant mirage but a practical reality which it is one's duty to put...

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