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...colonialism which delights African nationalists but infuriates European conservative parliamentarians. In short, the Thant strategy has finally won over all the Western allies save France, who sticks proudly to her defiance of anti-colonialist ideology and her refusal to believe that any good can come from U.N. military coercion...
...know I speak for many thousands when I say that the incident at Midwestern Seminary has set us back 50 years and has made meaningless the Baptist principle of the right of every individual to private judgment in religious matters without coercion from any source...
...best seller, The Road to Serfdom, and later in The Constitution of Liberty (1960). Now returning to Austria to teach, Hayek was a burr under many a U.S. intellectual sad dle. Almost alone, he argued that welfare-state planning, however well intentioned, inevitably leads to expediency, coercion and loss of liberty...
...elaborate system of acreage and production controls in U.S. history-and cut farmers off from almost all forms of Government aid if they did not accept those controls. The Farm Bureau favors fewer aids and fewer controls-and it views Freeman's all-or-nothing alternative as naked coercion...
Common Sense. Kennedy called his farm goals "as common-sense as A B C D"-for abundance, balance, conservation and development-but the program is sure to raise a huge controversy. Said Charles B. Shuman, president of the 1,600,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation: "Naked coercion . . . fantastically expensive." To lessen such opposition before Congress acts on the plan, Kennedy dispatched Agriculture Secretary Freeman to explain his program to farmers. The Detroit Free Press reported that his speech to farmers in East Lansing, Mich., got a reception "as frosty as the snow flurries outside." With such feeling, there...