The New Review March 1945

3. Agreements were made between the Lublin Committee and the Goverment of Soviets concerning the transfer of Poles to the west of the Curzon Line. [...] The right of all peoples to choose the form of their government was re-asserted as the leading principle of the Atlantic Charter ; yet the Polish frontiers were settled then and there without any reference to the wishes of the peoples concerned. [...] There the two armies are ' This was pgrhaps the outstanding defect of liberalism ; its uncritical optimism its animitic faith in the power of thought in verbal fictions its complete faith in the perfectibility of the human species ; it strangely overlooked the importance of irrational forces in civilization the marginal area of the unconscious the mighty but unacknowledged life of the in [...] It is designed largely to offset the appeal of liberalism as a political attitude and to educate the intelletuals and the masses in the ideological imperatives of the class war. [...] The proletariat is not merely the most suffering class of modern society ; it is the class destined to heal the wounds and cure the ills of the chaotic social structure.