Editorial July 6, 1974 Issue

Crisis of Leadership

[Editorial from The Christian Science Monitor, May 16, 1974.]

It is commonly held today that this is an age of large crises and small men.

"Where are the giants of yesteryear?" is the melancholy cry from those who often forget that some of the giants were ogres. Somehow, somewhere—the feeling runs—there must be men who can give us the quick, sure answers to our multiplying problems.

And so governments tumble, each with its particular set of political and socioeconomic causes, its distinctive crisis of confidence. But what is the common denominator between these apparently unrelated overturnings?

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