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Cancelled Titles

1. Conciliation or Conflict?
(Alternative titles included “Peaceful Settlement of Disputes,” “World Organization for Peace,” and “Can We Sidetrack Future Wars”)
By Leland Goodrich, World Peace Foundation Director
Rewritten by Arthur Lovejoy

2. Southeast Asia: Has Southeast Asia come of age?
By Lenox Mills, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Submitted September 27th, 1944

3. Independence for India?
(Alternative title “Freedom for India”)
By David Wilson, Professor of History, University of Minnesota
Submitted March 26th, 1945

4. Should Congress lead or follow Public Opinion?
By Hadley Cantril, Director, Office of Public Research, Princeton University
Submitted December 8th, 1944
Rejected by the War Department

5. Should Congress Streamline Itself?
By Cushman Coyle
Submitted June 26th, 1945

6. What Kind of Education Should my Children Have?
Original by Dr. Francis J. Brown, American Council on Education
Rewritten by Kenneth M. Gould, Chief Editor, Scholastic
Rewritten by Dr. Edgar B. Wesley, University of Minnesota
Rewritten by Professor Everett Sackett, University of New Hampshire

Submitted February 8, 1945
Cancelled August 29th, 1945

7. Should we have Postwar Price Control?
(Alternative titles “Price Control” and “Rationing)
Original by R.B. Hefelbower, Economist, Food Price Division, OPA
Rewritten by Maxwell Stewart, Editor, Public Affairs Committee

Submitted February 21, 1945
Cancelled August 30th, 1945

8. How can I decide about a Postwar Job?
(Alternative title “Me and My Job”)
By Wendell White, Professor, University of Minnesota
Submitted February 26th, 1945
Cancelled August 29th, 1945

9. Is Labor Carrying its Load?
By Joseph Loftus, New York Times, Washington Bureau
Submitted April 25th, 1945
Cancelled August 29th, 1945

10. Can a World Free Press be Achieved?
By Lewellyn White, Commission on Freedom of the Press
Submitted May 26th, 1945
Cancelled August 29th, 1945

11. Have we a Free Press?
By Robert E. Cushman, Professor of Government, Cornell University

12. How will you get along with the Folks at Home?
By Professor Kimball Young, Army University Center
Revised by William Miller

Cancelled August 18th, 1945

13. Whose Job is Reconversion?
By Arthur Upgren, Federal Reserve Bank, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Revised by David Coyle

Cancelled August 18th, 1945

14. Are Cartels necessary for World Economic Stability?
By Ben Lewis, Professor of Economics, Oberlin College

15. Who should choose a Career in the Army?
By Joseph L. Greene, Col., Inf. Editor, Infantry Journal

16. Can you spot a Fascist or a Communist?
(No author commissioned; just a suggested topic)

17. Are Leaders Born or Made?
By Ordway Tead, Editor, Harper & Brothers Publishers

18. Should we swear off Foreign Trade?
By Morris S. Rosenthal, Executive VP, Stein, Hall, & Corplne

19. Can you help make Foreign Policy?

20. Should Labor Unions be further Regulated?
By Louis Stark, New York Times
Submitted January 13th, 1945

21. Should we restrict Immigration Further after the War?
(Shall we change our Immigration Policy?)
By Maurice Davie, Department of Sociology, Yale University, and Committee for the Study of Immigration
Submitted September 27, 1945

22. Who Runs my Town?
By Robert E. and Mary P. Keohane, University of Chicago

23. What About Argentina?
By Yashel Rennie, Author, The Argentine Republic
Submitted September 27th, 1945