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...Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has his way, most of South Africa's 11,000,000 Bantu (native blacks) one day will live in their own Bantustans-eight big isolated reserves in regions safely separate from the white cities. There the stark concept of total apartheid will get its first test-if the plan ever comes off. Almost no one except Verwoerd's determined Afrikaner followers thinks it will, for the cost of development would be enormous, not to mention the reluctance of the black millions to remain forever in underdeveloped enclaves...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer in this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
...will open the door to a perilous new era of petty wars and territorial brigandage. But he is quite wrong in thinking that there is an alternative to the UN. Dag Hammarskjold wanted an active, vigorous UN executive who would settle explosive situations before international violence broke out--this concept is plainly offensive to Britain's Foreign Secretary. If the UN adopted the British theory of being simply conciliatory, simply a mediator, in the Congo, then it is fair to predict that the Cold War would become even more involved there...
Hoffmann is unperturbed by the results of the UN's decline: the abandonment of the concept of collective security, and the member-nations' refusal to support it beyond the point where their interests diverge the least bit from those of the world organization. What did you expect? he asks. Nor is he astonished that the UN's newer members have turned out to be opportunists and over-blown speechmakers...
...days of Dwight Eisenhower: in the first year of the Kennedy Administration the Justice Department brought fewer antitrust suits than it did in the last year of the Eisenhower Administration. Then, in one action, the Kennedy trustbusters more than made up the difference by unlimbering a startling new concept of antitrust enforcement...