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...Christianity for what he calls "the holocaust in Nigeria with its 2,000,000 dead." Many millions of sensitive Christians are more moral and Christian than the governments under which they live. Governments act on the basis of expedience and are therefore amoral, while the true Christian's view of responsibility is vastly superior in a humanitarian sense to that of his government. Reinhold Niebuhr's phrase, "Moral Man in an Immoral Society," suggests a vital distinction between a Christian and the society in which he lives. To make such a sweeping generalization as Mr. Yellin appears...
Welcome Weltanschauung. The President's message stimulated an immediate reaction abroad. The French press, resentful of American influence in Europe, generally welcomed Nixon's new Weltanschauung as a realistic view of a changing globe. But the Germans and the British, both leary about the possible withdrawal of American forces from Europe, were more cautious. Communist bloc reaction was restrained. Tass said that "the main aims of U.S. policy remain unchanged," pointed angrily to Nixon's decision to press ahead with the Safeguard program as evidence of continued American emphasis on military force as the basis of policy...
This sad process has been most accurately described in a new little Penguin paperback called The Greek Tragedy, by Constantine Tsoucalas. This book is not a straight historical narrative of Greece, but adopts a meaningful perspective by selecting and emphasizing certain periods and events since 1821 with a view to explaining the military coup of April 21, 1967. After reading this book the coup in retrospect is not at all surprising, but is rather the inevitable outcome of the mutual interests of the Army, the Palace, big business, and the United States...
Charles E. Schumer '71, president of the H-R Young Democrats, and Richard M. Neustadt, a first-year law student. head the group. The thirty-member team meets weekly in small seminars to discuss the proposed issues from two points of view: criticism of present administrative policy and development of new programs. Schumer said he hoped to expand the present program so that specific topics such as the Defense budget might also be examined closely...
...CRIMSON article of February 18, while mentioning that the faculty has voted to defer decision on the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, in fact gives the impression that the Harvard community has already decided that merger would be unwise. Another negative view of merger has just appeared in the Harvard Bulletin. The effect of these articles is to hamper just that thorough discussion that the new faculty committee was set up to insure...