Word: dealings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arguing over the NDEA oath, some members proposed a broad attack on both the loyalty oath and the disclaimer affidavit on the grounds of academic freedom, while others believed that the Council should deal with oath and affidavit separately. Several HFC members expressed the opinion that the organization should not concern itself with the NDEA...
...Leap Forward" was and is a miscalculation by a regime that is still trying to pull the correct strings of economic and political statesmanship. China is potentially strong; it is a country which, whether we like it or not, will give us a great deal of trouble in its growing process. But this process cannot be halted any more, regardless of its errors and atrocities...
...this situation there can, of course, be compromise. One sees no relatively important compromises worked out on the floor of the Council; perhaps both sides feel that they should not deal with the enemy in public. Eric H. Hanson, executive secretary of the CCA, and a regular observer of the Council in action, insists, however, that there have been frequent and important concessions by both sides paving the way for major steps. These seem to have been made informally in discussions between individual members and perhaps with the Mayor as mediator...
...more interesting explanation lies in the possibility of a Soviet-Chinese deal, a patching up of present tiffs through a series of concessions on both sides. Russia, which is now concerned with keeping its bourgeoise respectability on the international scene, would get backing on its summit conference proposal and a promise of peace overtures towards Formosa. In exchange, Russia would step up economic assistance, wholeheartedly support the Chinese position in Tibet, and furnish nuclear weapons to its neighbor (perhaps in time to coincide with French tests in the Sahara...
Finally, he proposed that a poem could even say things that were false, and still mean a great deal because "emotion brings to truth" its "structure of untruth...