Letters, May 3, 1943

Mr. Culbertson's Vacuum

Sirs:

In TIME, April 12 you report on Mr. Culbertson's latest "system," The World Federation Plan.

Like Clarence Streit and many others, Mr. Culbertson is apparently . . . unable to see that it was American society with its inherent, dynamic qualities that created and preserved our constitutional system, with its facilities for equally dynamic change, and not our constitutional system that preserved American society for over 150 years.

From the history of the creation of Europe's great national states during the 15th, 1 6th and 17th Centuries, and from our own Revolution we must learn this one lesson. It is always...

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