Bread, peace and liberty /
Published by : Craig Press, (Nutley, NJ :) Physical details: xiii, 95 pages ; 21 cm ISBN:0934532311; 9780934532310.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie | 339.46 KRE (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | APA017658 |
Translation of: Pain, paix, et libert�e.
Originally published in 1971.
Includes bibliographical references.
" ... The author ... a major in the French artillery, he was captured and put behind Hitler's barbed wire early in World War II. [This book] ... examines the causes and conditions of war and famine, and suggests methods for coping with them. Famine is a present fact, and wars continue ..." The author has made suggestions as to what to do in such an emergency deserve serious consideration. Further, inflation with its threat of totalitarianism might be diminished if enough people considered the author's view on economics"--Forward.
Part One: Bread -- Chapter 1: Man's efforts to assure himself of the vital minimum -- Standpoint of the individual: work, thrift, solidarity, insurance -- Standpoint of the government -- A political science which takes into account man's fundamental aspirations -- Different economic regimes -- The regulation of economic activities -- The optimum density of the population -- Anticipating dangers -- Chapter 2: A generally forgotten food: the Bread of Life -- What is this bread? -- What happens to men and nations who are nourished with the bread of life? -- Part Two: Peace -- Chapter 3: Analysis of the reasons for man's failure to establish a lasting peace -- The responsibility of statesmen -- "I loved war too much." (Louis XIV) -- Democracy and peace -- The influence of religions: ancient paganism, Christianity, Islam -- Are modern ideologies more conclusive to peace than the religions? -- The research of sociologists -- The French Institute of Polemology -- The biblical revelation -- Remedies for avoiding war -- The peace of the great empires: Babylon, Egypt, Rome -- Peace by a voluntary constraint of human nature -- Medieval Christianity, the paradise of the soviets, the Masonic ideal, the great international organization -- Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, initiator of a new humanity -- Part Three: Liberty -- Chapter 5: The causes of servitude -- Political causes -- Dictatorship, democracy; the weariness of free men; state religions, Roman Catholic reaction or atheistic materialism; state medicine; administrative arbitrariness -- Economic causes -- Feudalism and guilds; the hoarding of riches; authoritarian economic planning economic subjection the cement of political oppression -- Social causes -- Chapter 6: The conquest of liberty -- Apprenticeship in the techniques of liberty -- Requirements for the present fight for liberty -- The secret of exceptional strength of character; the discernment of the Communists and the blindness of the Westerners; appeal to the young states of Asia and Africa -- Conclusion -- The tragedy of our world.
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