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Although there is little hope that moral pressure will force Strijdom to abandon the forthcoming segregation of the universities of Capetown and Witwatersrand, several international student groups, among them NSA, are attempting to apply such pressure on the South African Government. A petition will circulate in Harvard this week, similar to one that will be introduced into every university in the non-Communist world, condemning the segregation. Though such action may have little effect, it will further remind Strijdom that his policies are in little accord with the Western principles he is trying to preserve in South Africa. The fact...
Figures Talk. Staggered but still fast on his feet, Nenni immediately began to drop hints that he might abandon politics and retire to his seaside villa at Formia. Coming from the Socialist Party's biggest vote getter and the idol of its rank and file, this was a potent threat. Hastily the newly elected central committee granted Nenni's demand that it endorse his Socialist unification policy and give his supporters a majority of the seats in the party secretariat...
...French control over the Arab population (which outnumbers the French by nearly nine to one), had his task complicated by French counterterrorists, known locally as Ultras, who are mostly poorly employed veterans of colonial wars in Morocco and Indo-China. They fear that Mollet's government plans to "abandon" Algeria...
Dulles said to abandon a policy because of fear of what Russia might do would in effect permit the Kremlin to dictate American actions...
None of this, concluded Petitpierre, meant that Switzerland should abandon the absolute neutrality which has even led her to reject membership in the U.N. "But," he emphasized, "neutrality as we practice it is not tantamount to moral neutrality, neutralism or indifference...