Democracy is not enough: a personal survey of the hungry world
Scott, John
Democracy is not enough: a personal survey of the hungry world - New York "Harcourt, Brace and Company" 1960 - 186 p.
This is a book about the underdeveloped nations and territories of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is a book about the nearly two billion human beings, most of them with yellow, black, or brown skins, who have not achieved the 50-per-cent adult literacy and the $200 a year per capita income mark which with some variation can be taken as the dividing line between underdevelopment and development, between the Hungry World and the sated world. It is a book about problems and choices, theirs and ours.
This Hungry World is of great and growing importance to the United States. It includes most of our planet's population and resources. Its restive millions, fired with new desires and hopes and armed with new weapons, are demanding and win ning freedom-the right to govern or misgovern themselves.
As these new nations emerge through self-government to independence, they are looking for help and guidance. They are groping for patterns of thought, for a political and economic philosophy, for administrative and technical aid, for capital, and most of all for understanding. Until recently the only place for them to turn was to the West, with its Christian ideals of love and charity, its wealth, and its proclaimed political democracy. Today the Communist world presents an alternative.
Democracy
327.73 SCO
Democracy is not enough: a personal survey of the hungry world - New York "Harcourt, Brace and Company" 1960 - 186 p.
This is a book about the underdeveloped nations and territories of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is a book about the nearly two billion human beings, most of them with yellow, black, or brown skins, who have not achieved the 50-per-cent adult literacy and the $200 a year per capita income mark which with some variation can be taken as the dividing line between underdevelopment and development, between the Hungry World and the sated world. It is a book about problems and choices, theirs and ours.
This Hungry World is of great and growing importance to the United States. It includes most of our planet's population and resources. Its restive millions, fired with new desires and hopes and armed with new weapons, are demanding and win ning freedom-the right to govern or misgovern themselves.
As these new nations emerge through self-government to independence, they are looking for help and guidance. They are groping for patterns of thought, for a political and economic philosophy, for administrative and technical aid, for capital, and most of all for understanding. Until recently the only place for them to turn was to the West, with its Christian ideals of love and charity, its wealth, and its proclaimed political democracy. Today the Communist world presents an alternative.
Democracy
327.73 SCO