intensely dramatic events which we are daily witnessing, leave us very little time to ponder about anything except this gigantic conflict.
Our receptiveness is hardly able to grasp the multitude of facts, and our imagination can only try to visualize their most direct effects.
We simply have not the leisure to cope with the vast background of this war and to analyze, for instance, why Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler have concentrated their political attacks on that very freedom which seemed to have become the cornerstone of our civilization, or why it is that the people in the totalitarian states have not reacted and put up a fight for their individual liberty.
But this is a war of ideas, and therefore everyone should try to realize the political undercurrents of this life and death struggle. For what is at stake is not only our future, but that of several generations to come.
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