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Colleges and law-makers must resist alumui and citizen pressure to fire or silence those with diverse views. Otherwise this will become a nation peopled by dull men who dare not think a new thought-the students of frightened teachers...
Such plausibility as the argument had ignored the fact that a Western Europe completely dependent on the U.S. would be of little help in resisting Communism. To be economically and politically strong enough to resist Communism, Western Europe would obviously also have to be free to stand on its own feet, to do as it pleased. It was reasonable to assume that what a strong, free Europe would decide to do would be to fight Communism, not for the sake of the U.S., but for its own sake. If that assumption involved for the U.S. the risk of a neutral...
...Berlin." Despite their tremendous efforts, the Communists have been able to make full-fledged fanatics of only a relatively small part of East Germany's youth. There are thousands who actively resist the FDJ by conducting clandestine discussions, or passing around leaflets (a recent one-"German youth: Don't go to Berlin. Don't let the stooges of Moscow misuse you . . . But if you must go, then compare the living standard of West Berlin with yours...
...this situation, as long as there are anti-Communist forces on Formosa who say they want to resist, the morality of renewed U.S. aid is hard to challenge...
...most other U.S. newsmen. Writing about China's new boss, Mao Tse-tung (LIFE, Jan. 23) he drew the moral of the story: "In the cities and the areas of China which they held, Chiang's forces became identified with defeat, despair and disorder. The will to resist waned and, by this curious conspiracy of circumstances, revolutionary Communism came to be associated with-of all things-order and the promise of peace. This was the process, sped by the age-old agonies of Asia's crowded, impoverished lands, that brought a determined, rebellious Hunanese peasant...