Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although they are from many countries, the conferees share a common belief: the prosperity and strength of the free world are chiefly products of the initiative and resourcefulness of the individual working through the institutions of private enterprise. A few of the men who share this belief: Canada's Gordon Graham, India's G. D. Birla, Belgium's Paul Van Zeeland, Iran's A. H. Ebtehaj, Brazil's Walther Moreira Salles. Conference chairman will be TIME'S Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce...
...very institution of this country most famous for its intellectual vigor, where ideas and viewpoints in other fields are subjected to such fair and thoroughgoing scrutiny." The rest of the magazine is mostly filled with reprints. The purpose of the editors is made more clear by this statement of belief purpose, "that of maintaining a kind of intangible individualism and certainly a dominant and vigorous upper class...
When the existence of the order was revealed today, high officials obviously felt it would lead to a belief that the Army was expecting widespread violence in the South...
...into practice, this dictum makes all Americans, particularly those abroad, into small megaphones for the State Department. Dulles implements his belief by reserving to himself the right to limit travel to conform to State Department whims...
While this protectionism by the Secretary certainly furthers his foreign policy, it denies the fundamental American belief that the individual has the ability and the right to seek the truth. Secretary Dulles, in his haste to further State Department aims, has brushed aside the right of free inquiry, which is more important than his Department's policies. In time of war, it is conceivable that the government must limit public knowledge for purposes of security. But such drastic action--and limitation of individual rights to knowledge is always drastic--should not be invoked arbitrarily by the State Department to support...