George B. de Huszar

              GEORGE B. de HUSZAR
Lecture Subjects

A POSITIVE PROGRAM FOR DEMOCRACY
DIVIDE AND CONQUER
OUR MORALE; AND HOW WE CAN IMPROVE IT.
STRATEGY FOR PEACE
DAWN OF VICTORY
AGE OF UNREASON


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Mr. George B. de Huszar is a political scientist and lecturer of unusual background.  Scion of a distinguished family of the nobility, he was born in Switzerland.  His father was a member of the Spanish and Laureate of the French academies and an intimate adviser to the last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the former King of Greece.

Mr. de Huszar received a thorough and versatile education.  He attended the University of Budapest, the University of Geneva, the Institute of International Studies in Geneva and the University of Chicago.

Due to his international background and contacts he had a first hand opportunity to observe the diplomatic events of Europe.  Mr. de Huszar has been a delegate to a number of international conferences, such as the Twenty-First Plenary Congress of the International Union of the League of Nations Association held at Bratislava, Czecho-Slovakia.  While in Geneva he attended the sessions of the League of Nations and the International Labor Office.  These experiences and his intensive study of European affairs has enabled him to grasp the basic problems and trends of European politics and the present war.

Since coming to this country, Mr. de Huszar has investigated the causes of the failure of the democracies in Europe.  The results of his research are contained in two books which will shortly be published: Democratic Morale in which he proposes a positive program for American democracy, and Suicide of Reason which is an essay on Western Civilization and Naziism.  At present Mr. de Huszar is on the research staff of the University of Chicago.  He is also engaged in writing a book on the Strategy for Peace.

Mr. de Huszar's hundreds of lectures and radio talks, before various audiences, on democracy, morale, European politics, the war and the next peace, have been enthusiastically received all over the United States.  His lectures, in which he draws on his varied and interesting experiences and scholarly background, are characterized by a clear and logical delivery which captures and holds his audience.



SOME REACTIONS TO HIS LECTURES
You renewed our faith in the ideals of democracy, as the philosophy best suited to conserve the good in the world and gave us courage to face the future.  Many of our members were greatly impressed by your keen insight and so expressed themselves to me after the program.  We will have no speaker, I am sure, who will be any more appreciative of, or have a better understanding of what real 'World Peace' should be like.  Your lecture was a real inspiration.

Mrs. W. M. Winter, Chairman, Englewood Women's Club, Chicago

Since hearing you, you can be assured that my last line: This speaker will doubtlessly go down in the history of our club as A-1 will still hold good.  I can't possibly express the enjoyment I got out of your talk.  I sincerely believe that everyone of our membership feels the same way, and from comments that have drifted my direction, I feel safe in assuming that we all appreciated greatly the many interesting and unusual facts you presented to us.

Mr. Frank Heil, Secretary, Kiwanis Club of South Chicago

I certainly enjoyed the splendid talk which you delivered and would welcome the opportunity to hear you talk further along the same lines.  I believe you have a message that every true American should hear.

Mr. P. P. Young, Chairman, Civitan Club of Chicago

He is most excellent, and has a very fine delivery.

Mr. J. Moore, Chairman, Rotary Club, Norfolk, Nebraska

Have received so many fine compliments about the lecture you presented the other night.  They were very appreciative of your fine talent and have alloted to me the reputation of a fine program chairman for securing so interesting a program.

Dr. H. E. Wells, Chairman, Southtown Co-Operative Club, Chicago.



SOME REACTIONS TO HIS BOOKS
It seems to me that you have made a very real contribution in pointing out the importance of an effective intergration of society along democratic lines.  Your interpretation of the conditions of disintegration in Central Europe, which provided the opportunity of Nazi propaganda, is very illuminating.  Your distinction between do-democracy and talk-democracy should be thoroughly understood by all Americans and all others interested in democracy.

Prof. Quincy Wright, Chairman, Dept. of International Relations, U. of Ch.

I believe that in the present world situation, an analysis of this kind is a good deal of importance.  Indeed, it is going to be in proportion as we can use the techniques that de Huszar suggests that we can work out a lasting world structure after the war.  I might say that I have been using certain adaptations of these techniques in my survey down here in Louisiana.  The results have been good beyond all expectations!

Carleton Washburne, President, Progressive Education Association.

Congratulations on the completed sections of your book.  I read every word of the manuscript with profound interest.…you will have an immensely important book.  Seems to me that you have struck into new territory and that before you are through you will not only reach some valuable conclusions but will also stimulate others in American to do the kind of thinking, and acting, that we so desperately need right now.

William Shawn, Editor of New Yorker