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Looking ahead, the outcome at Geneva depends on what the West is prepared to do about Asia. And the West does not know. Paris wants to end the unpopular Indo-China war. France's General Henri Navarre, the able French commander in Indo-China, believes the war can be won with more strength. Yet French leaders in Indo-China do not want too much U.S. help for fear that the help might provoke Communist China into open intervention. Within the Eisenhower Administration, the situation is just as confused: one faction of the State Department thinks Indo-China...
...Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead was challenging it to "rise to its opportunity, and in the modern world repeat the brilliant leadership of medieval Paris." If the U.S. university does rise, says Nathan Pusey, it will not be by curtailing its pursuit of truth, "no matter how unpopular," but by carrying on the pursuit more fully...
...Committee methods, which seek, by threats and pressures, to secure confession of unpopular beliefs and associations, are identical, in their own legislative field, with those of the 'third degree,' in the criminal field," he maintains, and pledges himself to the fight to legitimately "abolish" investigations which use such tactics...
...committee methods, which seek, by threats and pressures, to secure confession of unpopular beliefs and associations, are identical, in their own legislative field, with those of the "third degree," in the criminal field, as that practice was defined in 1931 by the Report of the President's National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. In section 11 of that report, which studied Lawlessness in Law Enforcement, and for which Mr. Chafee had some responsibility as legal consultant, the practice is defined as follows...
...Aside from several curious non-sequiturs in your editorial on Friday, your "practical" argument seems to ignore the fact that McCarthy is not interested in finding whether persons are guilty of violating the law. His only aim is to profit by the current hysteria through victimizing people who hol unpopular beliefs. To give him more names is merely to provide him with more fuel and to aid him in destroying the lives of men and families. The fact that those named would protest their innocence of criminal activity would not hinder McCarthy; his genius lies in distortion and innuendo. Further...