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...Mansfield said, the U.S. position is that: 1) "there must be a verified choice by the people of South Viet Nam of their own government-a choice free of terrorism, violence and coercion from any quarter"; 2) the people of South Viet Nam should be free to choose between independence and reunification with the Communist North; and 3) "all foreign forces and bases" must be withdrawn from North and South Viet Nam, provided "peace can be reestablished, and the arrangements include adequate international guarantees of noninterference, not only for Viet Nam but for Laos and Cambodia as well...
...Premier Papandreou's Center Union Party who broke away at Constantine's bidding to try and form a government. Fist fights and hubbub punctuated the session, and all the King's men and all of Papandreou's felt the pressure of last-minute efforts at coercion that included dark threats of murder. Tsirimokos spoke confidently of victory. The real winner turned out to be Papandreou, who, in his usual style, waited outside in the lobby before walking in dramatically to raise his hand and vote...
...limit police power and to protect the citizen from government oppression. In essence, the Bill of Rights commands government to prove its case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt. The state cannot force a defendant to testify against himself; the courts must exclude "confessions" that have been obtained by coercion, even if it means freeing the guilty. As Felix Frankfurter summarized the significance of such provisions: "The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards...
...math of the U.N. involved sets and subsets incomprehensible to minds raised in the school of Big Power politics. At the same time, the cold war had also changed. Said Dean Rusk: "The cobweb syndrome, the illusion that one nation or a bloc of nations could, by coercion, weave the world into a single pattern, is fading into limbo...
Effective authority, Tillich said, needs power, and the conflict of authority with authority leads, inevitably, to the use of force. "But when is coercion a just expression of power, when an unjust one?" Old criteria-the medieval concept of the just war, for example-no longer serve in an age of possible atomic conflagration, and the many laws that apply to men can only obliquely serve as guides to the proper conduct of nations...