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...usual, a lot of famous people stopped in at Harvard this year. They ranged from Andrew Young, now U.S. ambassador to the U.N., through Eugene McCarthy, occasional presidential candidate, Bella Abzug, former New York congresswoman, and Willy Brandt, former prime minister of West Germany...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin called it "the most unsordid act of history." To Willy Brandt, speaking later as Chancellor of West Germany, it was "one of the strokes of providence of this century, a century that has not so very 'often been illuminated by the light of reason." It was launched upon the world in Harvard Yard just 30 years ago this week -in what was surely one of the most momentous commencement day speeches ever made. Sunshine tattered through the decorous elms as Harvard staged its first normal graduation exercises since the end of World...
...Brandt also said that the prosperous nations of the world "must make material concessions" to the third world countries to decrease "strains in the international network...
...Justice demands, and reason will tell us, there will never be a lasting coexistence of prosperity and misery," Brandt said...
...existing role of the United States in the world order should be maintained and strengthened, Brandt said. "The cooperation between America and the uniting states of Europe in principle requires no change...