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...policing their internal affairs and at restraining those who would aggrandize irresponsibly. This process is, according to Millis, constantly reducing the burden that will have to be placed on the international police charged with enforcing disarmament. He perceives a civilizing element at work throughout the world, building a consensus against the use of modern weapons--a consensus which will make the international police problems easier than is frequently supposed. Millis does not foresee a comprehensive world government nor does he seek to purge the power element from international relations. His international police will only have the authority to insist that...
...knee of Warren Gamaliel Harding, for whose newspaper he worked as a boy in Marion, Ohio. It wasn't long before Thomas fled to the fringe of the political spectrum of Harding's day; and at eighty years of age--wise and somewhat weary--he has seen the political consensus meet him halfway. In the process he has both learned and taught as much as one man can ever hope...
...broad generality of the topics discussed inevitably produced more cross talk than consensus on the panels. Just as inevitably, many of the grand remedies for world ills brought out in the discussions were familiar nostrums that had been heard too often before-George Kennan, for example, attempted to revive Poland's old Rapacki Plan to denuclearize Central Europe, while ever-hopeful Harold Stassen proposed an arms-free zone on each side of the Bering Strait. Nonetheless, the convocation served the useful purpose of providing an intellectual workshop for a farand free-ranging discussion of some central ideas and issues...
...development of international law, Warren noted, lags behind the perfection of domestic law. The major reason is a lack of consensus on the meaning and scope of sovereignty. Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan of Pakistan, an International Court justice, and Mexico's Luis Quintanilla, onetime Minister to the U.S., both agreed that traditional concepts of jealously guarded sovereignty should give way to greater acceptance of reduced national autonomy and greater acceptance of international obligations. Said Quintanilla: "Anything happening in any corner of the earth affects sooner or later the entire international society in which our nations grow. Human solidarity, until...
...should be a bastion between dangerous extremists--racists and impatient integrationists." What the Church needs, Pettigrew suggested, is direct social action. Interracial barriers can be broken down only if Negro families are invited into all-white parishes, he maintained. The Episcopal and other churches should not wait until a consensus of opinion favors variations from old patterns, he continued. Changes in attitude will come only after a change in behavior, he asserted...