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...concept of aggressive war is a politician's concept, not a soldier's," he announced. "I did no more than write the Führer's orders and forward them...
Meyer, who served with Harold E. Stassen at the San Francisco Conference, held that the time is growing short in which to prevent another war, and that this can be done only by abolishing the concept of sovereign nations. His arguments paralleled those set forth by the recent Rollins College Conference, which proposed amending the United Nations Charter to create a world government...
...Fletcher Pratt performed a public service when he exposed the Army and Navy's fraudulent press relations and censorship practices [TIME, Feb. 11] during World War II. . . . Actually, the Navy has no concept of public relations. One Annapolis arrogant thought [the term] meant kinfolk on charity...
...would have to decide whether to bring before UNO a charge that Russia had coerced Iran into "friendship." If Iran was a sample, disputes before UNO were likely to partake of the bewildering complexity of the British divorce courts rather than the classic simplicity of the "One World" concept...
...This," says Santayana, "is a strange picture, and I am not sure that the Catholic Church is pledged to accept it." He thinks that the traditional concept of immortality "is simply a misunderstanding, perhaps a verbal misunderstanding only, of inevitable but clumsy metaphors. . . . Illusion comes in . . . when the ingrained habit of speaking metaphorically congeals into an incapacity not to think mythically...