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...well-being of the state and people depends on the proper conduct of proprieties and rites, or li-which one scholar calls "the politeness of the heart." This can be achieved by following the five virtues: benevolence, righteousness, propriety, knowledge, sincerity. These must be applied in the framework of the five relationships: prince and minister, father and son, older brother and younger brother, husband and wife, friend and friend...
What he seems to have done, however, is construct an informal, ad hoc framework to get things done...
...complement of consolidating recipient countries is grouping donors. The President proposed that eighty five per cent of American foreign aid be given within a "multilateral" framework. Johnson defines multilateralism in two ways. First, he requires the matching of American grants by other industrial countries. According to the President, America would give India as much wheat as Canada, Australia, and Russia together contributed, up to three million tons. Second, the President weakly insisted that we "redouble our efforts" to finance development schemes through neutral institutions like the World Bank and the African Development Bank...
Bonn no longer believes that reunification can be brought about only by an unrelenting, tough stand toward the East. Rather, said Brandt last week, it "will be possible only within the framework of a general European détente, which we earnestly and sincerely seek." Significantly, Bonn forged ahead on its own and told the U.S. what it was up to only as a matter of courtesy...
...charge of subtle racism is an irrelevant one; a much more serious charge--one that reflects not on Moynihan's motives but upon his competence--is that the Moynihan Report proposed a program that was simply unworkable within the framework of national and local power relations. This flaw, I think, not only from Moynihan's basic orientation, but from his misunderstanding--until recently--of the nature of the political and administrative process in this country...