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relative geographic isolation no longer exists... At the end of the last war, not a single plane had flown across the
Atlantic. Today that ocean is a mere ribbon, with airplanes making regular scheduled flights. The Pacific is only a slightly wider ribbon in the ocean of the air, and Europe and Asia are at our very doorstep.
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wrote in 2022 that the book has "an unintentionally humorous subtext" because of
Willkie's rumored affair with then-Chinese First Lady Soong Meiling, who was described in the book as having "a generous and understanding heart, a gracious and beautiful manner and appearance, and a burning conviction."
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If our withdrawal from world affairs after the last war was a contributing factor to the present war and to the economic instability of the past 20 years—and it seems plain that it was—a withdrawal from the problems and responsibilities of the world after this war would be a sheer disaster. Even our
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Willkie opposed
Colonialism in general, including the American: "The British are by no means the only colonial rulers." The French, Dutch, Portuguese and Belgians are in the list. "And we ourselves have not yet promised complete freedom to all the peoples in the West Indies for whom we have assumed
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hailed One World as a 'record-breaking non-fiction best seller,' a phenomenon 'unequaled since the days of the old blue-backed 'speller'—Noah
Webster's Revolutionary-era guide to the new American English. The success of the book caught Willkie by surprise and the proceeds from the book went to war
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I found this dread of foreign control everywhere. The fact that we are not associated with it in men's minds has caused people to go much farther in their approval of us than I dared to imagine. I was amazed to discover how keenly the world is aware of the fact that we do not seek—anywhere, in any
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beyond West Europe to all world. "That was one of the reasons why I was so greatly distressed when Mr. Churchill subsequently made his world-disturbing remark, 'We mean to hold our own. I did not become His
Majesty's first minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.'"
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When I say that peace must be planned on a world basis, I mean quite literally that it must embrace the earth. Continents and oceans are plainly only parts of a whole, seen, as I have seen them, from the air ... And it is inescapable that there can be no peace for any part of the world unless the
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When you fly around the world in 49 days, you learn that the world has become small not only on the map, but also in the minds of men. All around the world, there are some ideas which millions and millions of men hold in common, almost as much as if they lived in the same
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He warned on the Soviet rule over East Europe: "The failure of Mr. Stalin to announce to a worried world Russia's specific aspirations with reference to
Eastern Europe weighs the scales once more against the proclaimed purposes of leaders."
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region—to impose our rule upon others or to exact special privileges ... No other
Western nation has such a reservoir. Ours must be used to unify the peoples of the earth in the human quest for freedom and justice.
210:"There are no distant points in the world any longer." What concerns "myriad millions of human beings" abroad, concerns the Americans. "Our thinking in the future must be world-wide."
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Rozsa added that
Willkie's book is still relevant because of global issues like "the climate crisis, massive inequality, the rising threat of fascism and the threat of nuclear war."
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Willkie was also critical of the disparity between the
Atlantic Charter and the domestic American racial and anti-Semitic policies—a phenomenon he labeled "domestic imperialism."
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To win the peace, "we must now plan for peace on a world basis" and "play an active, constructive part in freeing and keeping" this peace. By "peace on world basis" he meant:
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Willkie anticipated military and economic integration of West Europe after the war: "The re-creation of the small countries of Europe as political units,
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The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago
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Willkie emphasized that across the world the "reservoir of goodwill" towards the United States is much larger than towards other contemporary powers:
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wrote of it, "Wendell Willkie left a monument more enduring than granite in the words 'One World'..." The title
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foundations of peace are made secure throughout all parts of the world.
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This article is about the Wendell Willkie book. For other books, see
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The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World
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The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World
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relief agencies in Britain, Russia, and China. Matthew Rozsa of
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