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...Saigon the Communists came close to forcing a showdown which would reveal, one way or the other, whether the U.S. was deadly serious in its intention to resist the spread of Communism. The test would not be the relatively easy one of whether the U.S. was willing to spend money, nor whether the U.S. was willing to wage all-out atomic war. It would be the narrower, harder test of whether the U.S. was willing to engage in limited military action for limited objectives, each one of less than worldwide importance, but each one of which might be, if unresisted...
Should a Christian church under a Communist regime resist, and be driven underground? Or should it bow to the state for the sake of continuing as an organized entity? Or something in between? These are not academic questions in China and Poland, in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania, whose Christians sometimes feel that their Western brethren may be a bit too impatient for a new age of catacombs...
...Pacific to get into the Spanish-American War, the Oregon hoisted the signals "C B T" which meant "Are there any men-of-war about?" To show which kind of warships she was looking for, the Oregon broke out a Spanish flag. Joshua Slocum answered "No." He could not resist adding: "Let us keep together for mutual protection." The Oregon's only acknowledgment was to dip her flag three times to the Spray's own lowered flag, and to hurry...
Those who resist progress--even temporary progress--because of its novelty, are behaving as immaturely as those who follow each passing fancy. There is no absolute standard for Femininity more than for any other value in nature. Ultimately, let us hope that with our assistance our feminine comrades will be set free from the bonds of vanity--the "improvement" of surface beauty by cosmetics, long hair, falsies, etc.--as we ourselves were, only two hundred years ago. David Drake...
...Sermon on the Mount, with its advice not to resist evil, to turn the other cheek and to love one's enemies, according to Father Messineo, was meant for individuals only, not collective groups. "It is the inalienable right of a collectivity to defend its integrity and existence against unjust aggression . . . The citizen has the duty to render the society to which he belongs . . . the indispensable service of picking up arms and fighting to the utmost of his fully exploited capabilities in defense of his community menaced by unjust aggression." Conscientious objectors, he warned, "are guilty of Lucifer-like...