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...present draft of the constitution [TIME, Sept. 23] would establish an omnipotent assembly and government . . . such a regime would risk leading us finally to anarchy or dictatorship. ... I believe that the direction followed up to now . . . is not the right direction. All my wishes go, then, to those who present themselves as candidates pledged to follow another direction...
...conference. Burly Communist Leader Jacques Duclos made a frantic appeal to reluctant Socialists for left-wing unity. Leaders of the M.R.P., which stood to lose the most members to the new Gaullist party, hastened to make further changes in the constitution to appease waverers. Then the Assembly adopted the draft constitution on its first reading. Now it was up to the people...
Said Major General Harry Vaughan (no West Pointer but a 1916 All-Missouri center at Westminster College): "I got a lot of letters from some proud mamas who wanted to know why their Johnny was being drafted and these football players were not. . . . My reply was . . . that they certainly look like draft dodgers. . . . They have spent two or three years being educated at Government expense at the academies; now, when the shooting is over, they resign...
...informal dignity. Into their hands last week was put the nettle of Episcopal-Presbyterian union. The lower House of Deputies had refused to grasp it, instead had gingerly pushed it aside by voting: 1) to keep for another three years the Joint Commission on Unity, and request it to draft a new basis of union; 2) to ask the Presbyterians to produce a similar document; 3) to call for a standing commission on Church Unity to be set up by the Lambeth Conference...
...Committee for Constitutional Revision, originated during the summer term at the instance of the Crimson, Liberal Union, and AVC to draft a proposed Constitution for eventual adoption by the Student Council, met last night and unanimously endorsed the completed document...