Word: civilizer
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...Balfour's letter of Nov. 2. 1917 to Lord Rothschild contained the words: "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish People ... it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." It will be seen that Mr. Balfour pledged nothing. Nor was he or the government of Great Britain in a position to pledge the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Palestine'' was never a British colony, territory or possession...
Constitutional guarantees of civil rights were suspended in Canada last week after French separatists kidnaped officials to dramatize their claim for sovereignty. The southern tip of Italy barricaded itself against the rest of the country to assert a historical fealty to its traditional capital. Northern Ireland continued to smolder among its centuries-old religious hatreds. These and countless other.'atavistic conflicts are now waged with the newest weapons...
...discontent. The class contained a cadre of liberal Democrats, many from conservative states, who tilted the overall ideological cast of the Senate to the liberal side. They were returned in the Goldwater debacle of 1964, and for twelve years they have, in the main, cast their votes for Medicare, civil rights, voting rights, federal aid to education, increased minimum wages, the war on poverty, the nuclear test-ban treaty, the Peace Corps, federal rent subsidies, open housing. They provided the votes that enabled Lyndon Johnson to say, with less hyperbole than he regularly employed, that the Congress...
Student leaders have called for "a day of reflection on the issue of civil liberties emphasized by ongoing workshops," while insisting that classes be held "in order that those wishing to attend them...
According to James Butz, coordinator for Friday's moratorium, nearly 50 schools, including the University of Pennsylvania, William and Mary, the University of Massachusetts and UCLA, have agreed to the proposal for a Civil Liberties...