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...three sections: Political Theory and Comparative Government; American Government, Public Law, and Public Administration; and International Law and Relations. Seniors must take a four-hour examination in whichever of the areas they have chosen, in addition to the three-hour Departmental exam. Perhaps no department offers and welcomes a wider range of topics for theses (required for honors candidates...
Another respected voice in U.S. affairs spoke up last week, with a warning that was wider than Eisenhower's. Addressing the Naval War College at Newport, R.I. 79-year-old Bernard M. Baruch declared: "What has been done so far is inadequate . . . We still have not faced up to what the total peace-waging requires. We still stagger from crisis to crisis, with the initiative left to the enemy. We still treat each country as a separate problem, instead of as part of a unified global strategy." We are "spreading ourselves too thin...
...past, the news of his coming had been heard amidst the clatter of traffic on Bangkok's twisted, crowded streets. Peddlers had passed it from sampan to sampan along the winding, traffic-jammed klong (canals) that made Siam's capital an eastern Venice. Strawhatted boatmen on the wider canals that crisscross the rice-rich central plains to the north had told it to farmers' wives in houses perched on stilts. Up the great rivers, the Chao Phraya, the Mekong, the Tha Chin, the Ping, the Si and the Mun, it had gone with wandering merchants thumbing barge...
United World Federalists, boasting wider public support than Streit's Atlantic Union Committee and some just as well-known backers,*would work out its proposal through U.N. The Cord Meyer group argued that Streit's proposal would split the non-Communist world, create a group of unhappy and neglected "Jim Crow" democracies. Under the Federalists' plan, the U.N. itself would be transformed into a world government. If Russia stayed out, the other nations would go ahead with their organization anyhow. No one but a bemused dreamer expected Russia would stay in in good faith. Streit...
...Wider & Deeper. At least one Protestant leader welcomed the Vatican directive as a step-though not a very big one -in the right direction. Said the World Council of Churches' General Secretary Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft in Geneva: "The very fact that such a document is issued at all is a clear indication that the ecumenical movement has begun to make its influence felt among the clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic Church. We can only rejoice that such is the case." But he noted with regret that the directive "remains below the level reached...