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Jagan had maintained that America must decide how far it is willing to go in letting a people have the government it chooses, even if that government turns out to oppose U.S. interests. This, Lattimore declared, would be the true test of America's concept of democracy...
...American tendency to describe three western religious as parallel--Protestant, Catholic, Jew--is incorrect, he asserted. Judaism, inherently means not only a religion but a peoplehood, although this concept has been forgotten in America, and is hard for both the Jew and non-Jew to understand...
...wrong, in Comet's opinion, for the essence of Zionism is the unity and totality of the people. Therefore Jews in and out of Israel must work as partners, not as older and younger brothers, and the state must be the product of the people as a whole. This concept transcends the idea of a political state, and since it has not yet been realized Zionism was not made useless in 1948, he said...
Preferring to stick to its own concept, the I.A.P.A. convention voted unanimously to condemn the "conspiracy directed by Cuba to subvert and lead to the seizure of the press of the Americas by the Communists.'' and asked the 21-nation Organization of American States "to adopt all corrective measures in its charter." The I.A.P.A. elected as its new president Andrew Heiskell, board chairman of Time...
...More money. "The contrast in money spent per pupil in wealthy suburban and slum schools challenges the concept of equality of opportunity in American public education. The expenditure per pupil in the wealthy suburban school is as high as $1,000 per year. The expenditure in a big-city school is less than half that amount...