Democracy Is Not Enough

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Democracy Is Not Enough
"During five consecutive years, I traveled the Hungry
World. Nearly half a million miles by air and sea, by road
and river, watching and listening. Often with my wife,
sometimes alone, I groped first for the right questions,
then for answers.
"In every capital I tried to see someone in the government,
someone from the opposition; a banker and a business-
man or two, a teacher, a trade-union leader, a doctor or
an engineer, a priest, mullah, or missionary. I called, of
course, on diplomatic representatives, including the Rus-
sians where they were in evidence. Everywhere I saw local
editors and foreign correspondents from other lands.
Everywhere I sought, and sometimes found, philosophers.
Then in every country I tried to see some enterprise im-
portant to the local people: an oil field, a tin mine, a
rubber plantation, a steel mill. Periodically, I set down
on paper such answers as I had found."
Much of the struggle for world power... Tovább

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From
Democracy Is Not Enough
"During five consecutive years, I traveled the Hungry
World. Nearly half a million miles by air and sea, by road
and river, watching and listening. Often with my wife,
sometimes alone, I groped first for the right questions,
then for answers.
"In every capital I tried to see someone in the government,
someone from the opposition; a banker and a business-
man or two, a teacher, a trade-union leader, a doctor or
an engineer, a priest, mullah, or missionary. I called, of
course, on diplomatic representatives, including the Rus-
sians where they were in evidence. Everywhere I saw local
editors and foreign correspondents from other lands.
Everywhere I sought, and sometimes found, philosophers.
Then in every country I tried to see some enterprise im-
portant to the local people: an oil field, a tin mine, a
rubber plantation, a steel mill. Periodically, I set down
on paper such answers as I had found."
Much of the struggle for world power be-
tween America and Russia is being fought
over lands where hunger is a stark, day-to-
day reality. John Scott has traveled half a
million miles in the lands of the Hungry
World—in Asia, India, the Middle East,
China, Africa, Latin America. With extra-
ordinary perception as a reporter, and equal-
ly extraordinary work methods, he has de-
veloped concrete suggestions about the atti-
tudes and principles that should govern the
policies of the United States toward the
world's underdeveloped areas.
Mr. Scott's comprehensive analysis of a
country takes into account its physical look,
its history, interviews with people from all
segments of its economy and social structure,
and discussion of his findings with its politi-
cal leaders. From such on-the-spot probing
in Bolivia, South Africa, Algeria, Morocco,
Egypt, Indonesia, Ghana, and India—and
from talks with such men as Nehru in India,
Schweitzer in Africa, Sukarno in Indonesia
—he draws the thesis that democracy is not
enough for the world's hungry, troubled peo-
ple. Both the word and the philosophy be-
hind the word are too abstract, he holds, and
he calls forthrightly for plans and actions
that will realistically meet the problems of
those lands whose immediate political needs
differ so radically from our own.
Jacket design by Janet Halverson
Walter Daran
John Scott, an expert on Russia and a widely
known lecturer, has been associated with
Time since 1941, when he filed his first dis-
patch from Japan. Later, he headed the
Time-Life bureau in Stockholm, and at the
end of World War II reopened Time's Cen-
tral European bureau in the wreckage of
Berlin. Today, as a reporter with vast ex-
perience in global reporting, he is special
assistant to the publisher of Time.
A native of Philadelphia, Mr. Scott at-
tended the University of Wisconsin. After his
college days, he lived in Russia for five years,
working in industrial plants and mastering
the language. His experiences were related
in his first book, Beyond the Urals, published
in 1942. He is also the author of Duel for
Europe, Europe in Revolution, and Political
Warfare. He now lives in Ridgefield, Con-
necticut. Vissza