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...Asian attacks on French control of Algeria. Effectively, the General Assembly is primarily a discussion forum, where major issues are brought to world attention. The decision-making power in the UN has generally rested with the Security Council. Despite American efforts to delegate more authority to the Assembly, this concept has held true...
...German political leader less staunch than Der Alte might have been pressured into it. But Adenauer's loyalty to the Western alliance is so crystal-clear that the Russians did not explicitly ask him to budge. Nor could any successor to Adenauer, less loyal, inherently, to the concept of Western unity, afford to disregard the strength that West Germany derives from the West. It is perhaps this infusion that enabled West Germany last week to negotiate with the Russians as between equals...
...concept of constitution as fundamental law enforces upon an often impatient majority a long cooling off period, during which the afforded opportunity for discussion and debate tends to ensure that the wisest counsels will prevail, and that the result will represent the reason of our people. The function of the judiciary was considered important at the birth of our constitutional era; it is no less important today...
...while talking loudly, but acting ineffectively. They were asked to fight for their country which had allowed aircraft to be fired upon and even shot down, while the U.S. did nothing more than wave a useless piece of paper demanding retribution. Is this a lack of education in the concept of American democracy or something more serious? . . . Can we in good faith with our fighting men subscribe to a code as strict as this Soldier's Code when we have read about a man of God-a man whose very strength and being rested with God-who broke...
...animal or plant, carry mystical overtones. He would insist with Thoreau that "this curious world which we inhabit ... is more to be admired and enjoyed than it is to be used." Indeed, he takes up the cudgels against man's shortsighted ambition to "control nature." That whole concept, he asserts, is false. Modern man needs greater understanding of "the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part." The idea of a world for man's use only is unrealizable. Long ago Alexander Pope summed it up with a smile...