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...Gaulle's concept of the state, as an instrument for the pursuit of the pure and unsullied national interest, under the direction of an impartial leader, men persisted in seeing a kind of capital of sovereignty, a last resort and farseeing leader, is by no means an impersonal one. Who else but De Gaulle could lead France in this fashion? If there is any one else, the General does not name him. Implicit in his entire work is the assumption that he alone is France's Man of Destiny; that, like Joan of Arc, he is unique and irreplaceable...
First, the Peace Corps concept is essentially non-partisan. Rep. Frank Bow (R., Ohio) considered introducing similar legislation two years ago. Both Mason Sears and Henry A. Wallace have endorsed the suggestion for a non-military national service. The Congressional proposal for a study of a Point Four Youth Corps gained bi-partisan support...
German-born Schoolmaster Kurt Hahn thought out his concept of a school while a student at Oxford's Magdalen College, where he watched tame deer browsing .spiritlessly in the park and saw an analogy with tame schoolboys. Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, Hahn designed a stern academy to "molest" the overly contented. His "seven laws": 1) give children opportunities for selfdiscovery; 2) make them meet with triumph and defeat; 3) give them the opportunity for self-effacement in a common cause; 4) provide periods of silence; 5) train the imagination; 6) make games important...
Lemus downfall lay in his steelhanded concept of duty. By long-established custom the wealthy families who control the tiny, crowded (305 persons per sq. mi.) coffee country allow the military brass to run the government so long as they keep order. Lemus tackled the problem of order keeping, aggravated both by agents of Fidel Castro and by one of the Americas' broadest gulfs between haves and have-nots (average daily agricultural wage: 60?). He outlawed unruly opposition parties, saw to it that persuasive opponents of the regime were jailed. Eight weeks ago Lemus got too tough even...
First, we have the question: What happened to the New Frontier? Senator Kennedy's call at his nomination for a new and higher outlook for American democracy has given way to the more pedestrian concept of "getting America moving again" and to the even more disappointing emphasis on staying ahead of the Russians. Most liberals (and probably Senator Kennedy himself) feel that the Democrats' programs of school construction, urban renewal, civil rights progress and social welfare are worth doing on their own merits, not merely as weapons in cold warfare. These rational liberals wish that Senator Kennedy would stress these...