Twenty Who Have Moulded World Affairs
LONDON, Dec. 21. The American magazine Look has listed 20 persons whom it considers to have had the most vital influence on the course of world affairs in the first half of the 20th century. The choice includes seven Americans, two Britons, two Indians, three Germans, two Italians and two Russians. The Americans are Henry Ford, General George Marshall, John D. Rockefeller, senr., the Wright hrothers (given as a single selection), and Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. The Britons are Winston Churchill and the economist John Maynard Keynes. The Germans are Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Adolf Hitler- * j, , -i The Indians are Gandhi and Nehru. . The Italians are Mussolim and Pope Pius XII. The Russians are Lenm and Stalin. The other two selections are Marie Curie, France, and Sun Yat Sen, China. In attempting to narrow the list to twenty persons, the judges, Mr. Arthur Schlesinger, junr., Harvard historian, and Mr. Marcus Childs, Washington columnist, explain that they selected only individuals who were responsible for great world changes. Their list omits leaders in art, literature and philosophy.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 December 1949, Page 5
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