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...March 6 response to Gale's letter, Pusey said that the University would not commit itself to non-compliance with a HUAC subpoena before such a subpoena was actually served. While the Young Republicans commended Pusey for his handling of the matter, other individuals and organizations were not so pleased. The Harvard Undergraduate Council, for example, urged the Corporation to reconsider Pusey's decision...
Moral Double Bookkeeping. The Saigon shifts were evidence of Johnson's willingness to commit his very best advisers to Viet Nam. Much as he would like history to remember him for his far-reaching domestic achievements, he has increasingly resigned himself to the fact that the war will loom large in his record. And he is determined to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion...
...suicide, decides that nothing in life has much meaning; he makes up his mind to follow his father's example. But the decision sets its own quandary: "If nothing makes any final difference, that fact makes no final difference either, and there is no more reason to commit suicide, say, than not to." It is the logical dilemma that so many existentialists run into. In the end, Andrews elects to live, or at least to go on existing...
From these two evaluations emerge two lanes for Japanese diplomacy. One lane is to keep ourselves away from the Vietnam war as much as possible; another is to commit more of our resources to the building up of the economic prosperity of Southeast Asia. We will never take the leadership position on this. The bitter memory of the Japanese occupation is still too vivid in the memories of the Asian nations to permit such a turn of events...
...Israel. Eshkol had privately told a group of editors, not including Bui's, that Israel had helped organize the Moroccan secret service in return for fair treatment of Moroccan Jews. Later, Eshkol said, the Moroccans had asked Israel to help kidnap Ben Barka, but Israel had refused to commit itself. Even so, if word of close ties between the two countries were to get out, Eshkol was afraid that it would jeopardize Israel's relations with Morocco as well as with France, where, last October, six persons went on trial in Paris for the kidnaping. The trial...