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...thought it possible to define democracy and human equality as compatible with an enforced dual social structure. These men were willing gradually to give the Negro all that was right and just-but only within the conceptual framework of two parallel societies, one black, the other white. When the concept of segregation itself was challenged, the Southern liberals drew back in alarm. Who is a Southern liberal? The well-known names of Harry Ashmore, Hodding Carter, Jonathan Daniels, Mark Ethridge and Virginius Dabney immediately come to mind...
Satisfied with his experiment's progress, Professor Leach sees it only as a bare beginning. Says he: "Under our concept of civilian control of the military, the defense program should get the same expert, scholarly attention as the tax laws and the farm bills." Leach's special goal: an "academic breakthrough" to beginners' courses in national defense for undergraduates, special programs in all U.S. graduate schools...
Briefly, the concept is that Soviet Russia not only will not venture to start a big war but will restrain her allies, including Red China, from doing...
Guinness has perfected the role with what one might consider too much practice, so this picture, like the others, is something of a minor gem. It fails only in capturing the true flavor of Chesterton's gentle detective tales. The concept of an arch-criminal brought to rights by an equally archdetective (an amateur, at that) is not of our era, with its low-keyed police efficiency. In all Europe there is only one man whose intellect can cope with the man who for ten years has pilfered art treasures without leaving the police any more of a clue than...
...intrinsic to international law based on a concept of justice is the proposition that the nations give up to some degree and in some respects their freedom of future choice. To Senator Knowland and millions of other Americans, such a proposition is likely to sound like the thing they fear most-the yielding of sovereignty. Nevertheless, the U.S. this year needs to reflect upon and discuss such a basic revision of the U.N. The reality of thermonuclear weapons poses the problem of international law in a way that can not be brushed...