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...views on China have changed reluctantly since the days when it was popularly believed that the Red Chinese were the sponsors of a humane land reform movement. Canada in 1950 was all set to recognize the Chinese Communist government, and the Korean war upset the plan. Canadian diplomats now admit that Canada "would have looked awfully foolish and inept if we'd gone through with recognition." They also confess that they did not expect the Chinese Reds "to be as vicious as they became" in Korea. But disillusioned though they have been on some scores, Canada's China...
...large majority of the House refused to admit a bill submitted Monday by Robert F. Murphy, Democratic floor leader, condemning Saltonstall for rushing through the approval of Conant's appointment when only six senators were present...
...only occurs in certain adolescent males. Females are never subject to sterility from mumps," the infirmary asserted. But Robert H. Hamlin, instructor in legal medicine, says sterilization occurs in post-adolescents, not adolescents, and adds that females can be affected as well as males. He did admit that chances of sterility are much greater among...
Whilst I found myself in warm sympathy with Professor Kohr's attack upon blind conformity, in his letters published in the CRIMSON for February 5, I was, I admit, startled by his dictum on democracy. I had hitherto accepted Lincoln's definition of democracy as government by the people; Professor Kohr tells us that "the most characteristic feature of democracy is not cooperation but opposition." Freedom to oppose is indeed of the essence of democracy, but to regard the government as something set up by the popular vote which it is then the main duty of the people to oppose...
...four children "naturally," I cannot let the remarks of Drs. Mandy et al. [TIME, Jan. 19] go unchallenged. The key to their squawk about natural childbirth lies in the assertion that "tried and true methods are suffering unfairly by comparison . . ." Childbirth under anesthesia demands, I admit, less time and effort from the doctor than the natural delivery, at which he must be like a coach to an athlete in the field. When these doctors develop a more mature relationship with their patients, they will see for themselves the rewards, medical and psychological, of natural childbirth...