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These qualms would not have embarrassed the Founding Fathers, who had a healthy 18th century distrust of democracy, and they should not bother Kennedy's supporters. Those liberals who advocate reform of the college in the name of democracy are preaching an unreal politics, for liberal reform has an investment in the present electoral apparatus. Under the system as it stands, counting each state's vote as a bloc favors the states with large urban populations and gives decisive influence to minority groups within these states. Anyone who doubts this can look at the enormous (and correct) importance attached...
...grudging $2,000,000 to the U.N.'s Technical Assistance Fund as against the U.S.'s $30 million. They declined to contribute for the United Nations Emergency Force, which was moved into the Middle East after the British-French debacle at Suez. They did not even bother to join such U.N. voluntary agencies as the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, which supports, among others, refugees from Hungary and Algeria. And despite the Russians' crocodile tears over the plight of Arab refugees, they contributed nothing whatever to their support...
...Pettingill, director of the International Student Association in Cambridge declared, "We must listen to what other nations desire in us. We cannot talk to ourselves alone." One of the basic problems in transmitting our image, he declared, is that we are too self-assured in our opinions. We seldom bother to see our actions through the eyes of the rest of the world...
...after Churchill became Minister, Lindemann was made his eminence" in science, and Tizard out of a job. "There was to be no authority for him in that war." was sent on a mission to the United States, and noted in his diary, was a method of getting a bother- person...
...block is the Trading-with-the-Enemy Act, which forbids the importing of goods from Red China unless the dealer can prove that he got them from the mainland before 1950. But J. D. Chen boasted that he had of late been doing quite well without going to the bother of getting licenses at all: if a U.S. customer wanted one of his treasures, Chen would get a friend, a tourist or even a diplomat to take the object into the U.S. as a personal belonging. So far, no one in customs had questioned the declarations of these unwitting agents...