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It Seems to Heywood Broun
Broun, Heywood | June 5, 1929 issue

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Two excellent words in American social and political life have come into complete disrepute. There is no sing any more to "liberal," and "reformer" is a dissonance. Something is to be said for the liberal. While it is true that he has been an inefficient force in the nation recently the course of world events has been against him. It was the war which destroyed the prestige of the American liberal. Not cowardice but bad judgment moved him to alliance with the conservatives during those trying days. It is easy now to point out the mistakes which liberals made in giving support to the war. But much which is evident now to the meanest intelligence was obscure in 1917.

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UNITED States -- Politics & government -- 1929-1933; UNITED States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932; LIBERALISM; CONSERVATISM; POLITICAL leadership; UNITED States
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