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Condemned Unheard. The National Assembly considered itself deeply insulted when Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville made an appearance to defend De Gaulle's concept of a Europe consist ing of federated but sovereign states, and stipulated that the plan could only be debated, not voted upon. All ten Communist Deputies flatly refused to attend the session. More than half of the Deputies - Socialists, Radicals, Popular Republicans, Independents - walked out en masse. Left facing empty benches, except for Gaullist Deputies, Couve de Murville complained, "We were condemned before we could be heard." Later, 293 of the 550 members...
...Democrat in Republican clothing. Rocky is downright indignant. He professes what to him is a basic Republican creed-and challenges anyone to dispute its orthodoxy. "In addition to the fact that I was born a Republican," he says, "I believe in the worth and dignity of the individual -the concept of equal rights. I believe in private initiative and private enterprise: this is the growth factor in a democracy...
...government are, and must be, primarily shaped and made by elected officials. It is with this particular perspective on our democratic processes that I underline my deep personal conviction that the future of freedom lies in the federal idea. I refer to the federal idea broadly as a concept of government by which a sovereign people-for their greater progress and protection-yield a portion of their sovereignty to a political system that has more than one center of sovereign power, energy and creativity...
This concern underlies General Education at Harvard, and its sense of national mission shines through the legendary "red book," General Education in a Free Society, the committee report whose publication in 1945 brought this concept to Harvard education...
This an essay on that concept, particularly on how it has worked and failed at Harvard. It cannot yet be assessed in relation to all American education, though it seems to have a widening impact on schools and colleges in the nation...