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...order to gain that action, we must have full co-operation from all the nations of the world. This co-operation depends upon the willingness of nations to relinquish certain prerogatives of action to a supra-national body, the United Nations, in the case of international conflicts. The nations must submit to a single code of action under law. This law, furthermore, must be enforceable under a world police force. Only under such a system can the United Nations assure the world's people that they may enjoy peace under adequate protection. C. Michael Lanphier 58, Vice-President, Harvard World...
...first important-if insufficient-shift toward compromise, Nasser let it be known through the Indian government that he would be ready to "internationalize" Suez Canal tolls, i.e., let a conference of canal users set the rates. But on the core of the matter-Egypt's refusal to relinquish control of the canal to international supervision -Gamal Abdel Nasser stood firm, awaiting the next challenge...
...undefeated Crimson, with Captain John W. Hallowell '31 at 2 and Albert N. Webster '31 at 4, jumped to an early lead and didn't relinquish it. But the Elis were never more than a length behind the whole way and with half a mile to go drew up to three-quarters of a length with a killing effort. Then they faded: the varsity's final margin was two and a half lengths...
After 23 years in Congress, South Carolina's tall, grey-thatched James Prioleau Richards, 61, looks longingly towards the end of the year, when he will relinquish his House seat, go back to his 500-acre cattle farm at Heath Springs (pop. 700), there "lie down on my back and look up at the moon and wonder what's up there." Last week, while the State Department gasped and the Defense Department groaned, Dick Richards decided the Administration was reaching for that same moon and asking too many sixpence in foreign aid next year...
When Walter George entered the U.S. Senate he took the seat that had been occupied by a Southern demagogue of the old school, Thomas E. Watson. When George steps out, he almost certainly will relinquish that seat to a new kind of Southern partisan. Viewing the prospect, nearly every member of the U.S. Senate agreed last week with the Baltimore Evening Sun: "Few men could step into Senator George's shoes; Mr. Talmadge couldn't even shine them...