Wendell Willkie: Fighter for Freedom. See notes 15-19 about Willkie’s position on civil rights and notes 29-31 about internationalism. 15 Libby, “Wendell Willkie and the Election of 1940,” 308. Immortal technique revolutionary vol 1 download zip. 16 Wendell L. Willkie, “Citizens of Negro Blood,” Collier ’s. Magazine, October 7, 1944 11, 47, 49 (ISL Clippings File). 17 Ibid., 11. EDITORIAL * THE VISION OF WENDELL WILLKIE I47 ognize the danger and demand a policy of peace. The survival of this fragile planet depends above all on the willingness of our nation to implement the vision of a great American statesman, Wendell Willkie. The choice for us all is One World or none. REFERENCES i. Stanley Weintraub.

And extend access to Journal of Public Health Policy ® www.jstor.org One Worldor No World: The Visionof WendellWillkie Thereis greatconcernaboutthepossibilityof nuclearwaramong Colombianchildrenandadolescentsa,ndthisinfluencestheirway of lookingtowardthefuture.Theythinkaboutnuclearwar,make theirlifeplansin lightof preoccupationwiththepossibilityof the destructionof humanitya, ndinmanycasesbelievetheydonothave a future. - OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY * SUMMER I987 creatingnuclearwar capability,and has an importantinfluenceon everyone.

This fear of the destructionof humanitywas expressedin a recent speechto theUnitedNations bySovietForeignMinisterShevardnadze: We see the glimmerof lightin the fact that at the time crucialfor mankindthe peoplesand an increasingnumberof governmentsare becomingawareof the need to adopt a new way of thinkingin line with the realitiesof the nuclearand space age. The time is coming when considerationsof groups, blocs or ideologiesarebeginningto giveway to the understandingthatpeace is a supremevalue.Onlyif peaceis translatedfromdeclarationsinto practicalaction is therea chancefor survival.( 3 ) WENDELL WILLKIE: ONE WORLD This call for a new way of thinking,which the presentAdministration andthe Congresshaveyetto achieve,was firstbroughtto worldattention by an outstandingRepublicanstatesmanmorethan 40 yearsago. Wendell Willkiewas a nativeof Elwood, Indiana,who becamea successful WallStreetcorporationlawyerandthepresidentof Commonwealthand SouthernCorporation,a huge utilitiesholdingcompany.A Democratin the early 30s, WillkieturnedRepublicanbecauseof what he felt to be unwise governmentrestraintson businessenterprise.As a Republican presidentialcandidatein I940, opposing PresidentFranklinD. Roosevelt'sbid for a thirdterm,Willkiereceiveda popularvote of morethan zz million,thelargesteverreceivedbya Republicanupto thattime( 4 ). In I94z, WendellWillkie circled the globe in a U.S.

Army plane, accompaniedby the publisherGardnerCowles,Jr.,thejournalistJoseph Barnes,andrepresentativeosf theU.S.ArmyandNavy.He hadanopportunityto see andtalkto hundredsof peoplein morethana dozennations, and to talk intimatelywith many of the world's leaders.A year later, Willkie published One World,a fascinatingaccount of his experiences and condusions ( 5 ). This is a remarkablebook, forthright,informative, and, consideringthe fact it was written beforethe crisisof the nuclear age, extraordinarilyperceptiveand statesmanlike.It is eminentlyworth reading,from coverto cover;we shall quote, for reasonsof space,only his majorconclusions: On theMiddleEast Thisproblem,as it seemsto me, of bringingthe peoplesof the MiddleEastinto the twentiethcenturyin technicalandindustrial termsis, in turn,intimatelylinkedwith the questionof political self-governmenMt. AnyWesternerws homI metandtalkedwithin thesecountriestoldmetheseveralreasons,validin theirminds,for the extremelyprimitivebackwardnesisn which most Arabslive. ThesereasonsrangedfromthechargethatArabsactuallypreferto die youngto the statementthattheirreligionpreventsthemfrom accumulatintghecapitalwithwhichto maketheimprovementshey needin theirway of life. To my mind,thesereasonsweremostly nonsense.Give any ArabsI saw a chanceto feel that they were runningtheirownshow,andtheywouldchangetheworldtheylive in. I 4) On China We must not expect Chineseidealsof personallibertyand democraticgovernmentto be exactlythe same as ours.

Someof theirideas may seem to us too radical, others may seem ridiculouslyarchaic. We should rememberthat in theireyes some of our customs appear ridiculousand even distasteful.Wemust keep our mindsfixedupon the essentialfact that the Chinesewant to be free-free in theirown way to governtheir lives for the benefitand happinessof theirown people. 45) On Russia There's still another thing I know: geographically,from a trade standpoint, in their similarityof approach to many problems, the Russians and the Americansshould get along together.The industrialization of Russia will requirea limitless amount of American products, and Russiahas unlimitednaturalresourcesthat we need. The Russians, like us, are a hardy, direct people and have great admirationfor everythingin America,exceptthe capitalisticsystem. And, frankly,therearemany things in Russiathat we can admireits vigor, its vast dreams,its energy,its tenacityof purpose. No one could be more opposed to the Communist doctrinethan I am, for I am completely opposed to any system that leads to absolutism.