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...editorial goes on to assert blandly that United States and United Nations action would be taken against Arab aggressors in the event of their swarming across Israel's borders--something every Arab dictator has sworn to do ... We should all not the small size of the Israeli state. Within hours, far shorter time than it would take a U.N. or U.S. force to be fighting ... Israel would no longer remain on the map. Without weapons for defense she could not face the blitzkrieg of Soviet war machines...
...During this period of notable cooperative progress in the free world, those who assert the supremacy of the state, and deny the inherent rights of man, have also been active. Millions of people of different blood, religion and traditions have been forcibly incorporated within the Soviet Union . . . In Europe alone, some 100 million people, in what were once ten independent nations, are compelled, against their will, to work for the glorification and aggrandizement of the Soviet Communist state...
...only of peculiar fascination to an age that has witnessed the revival of atrocity. Such conduct is what - in the absence of Shakespearean remorse or classical retribution - psychologically weights the play's later episodes. Tamburlaine is one who, having achieved enormous power, but must almost maniacally assert it: his is no self-preserving ruthlessness or vengeful rancor, but an ego-driven, gratuitous cruelty...
Chouteau Dyer and Gus Johnson will take good charge of the 50 for the visitors, while sophomores Greg Stones and Duane Murner will attempt to assert themselves strongly as varsity divers...
...prove nothing when you assert that Robert Hutchins is no more Communist-minded than Adams or Burke. You could have included Columbus or Pocahontas in your list too. Hutchins has made the Fund a kind of fund for the American Nightmare...