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...statment pledges student council support of a presidential peace candidate. "We want to commit ourselves to concrete action," Mary E. Bjorklund, third year divinity student and president of the student council, said last night. She added that the pledge was intentionally non-partisan, and was not in support of any specific candidate...
...with the confident, if imprecise, assertion that as we abandon protection, graduate from gold, and commit ourselves against any narrowly American view of the revolution in management, we shall open the way for great constructive labors in which no man need be our enemy, and in which no one's interests need be forgotten. Because ours is the strength, ours also must be the generosity...
...Americans: You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination...
...White House has been predominant. Most of the 20th century has seen the President in the ascendancy. Last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee attempted to redress the balance somewhat, approving unanimously a report calling for a congressional curb on the President's power to commit the country to foreign military ventures. Quoting authorities ranging from Supreme Court Justice (1932-38) Benjamin Cardozo to Napoleon Bonaparte, William Fulbright's committee condemned what it called "the dangerous tendency" toward presidential supremacy in foreign policy from Theodore Roosevelt right up to Lyndon Johnson. "Only in the present century," it said...
...Still, no matter how unmindful of Greek public opinion they may be, Greece's military rulers feared the repercussions of a backdown on such an emotional issue as Cyprus. In a reply to Turkey, the Greek leaders offered to discuss measures for cooling the crisis but refused to commit themselves on the crucial issue of troop withdrawals...