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...POLICY. The President's tone was one of muted optimism: "For every apparent blessing contains the seeds of danger-every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope-and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable." He emphasized his belief that "freedom, not coercion, is the wave of the future," contrasted the growing unity of the free world with internal rifts among the Communists. "It is not free societies which bear within them the seeds of inevitable disunity." He asked for a special $3 billion fund for the Alliance for Progress program...
...RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. Theologians at one famed Catholic institution in Europe have requested that the council "publicly and solemnly proclaim that the Catholic faith cannot be forced on anyone, and that it cannot be preserved by any political or social coercion or by any means that do violence to a man's conscience." Some U.S. theologians fear that the council may not go as far as church "liberals" wish. "The conservatives want religious liberty in Russia, certainly," says one. "But they don't want it in Spain...
Defining freedom as the "absence of physical coercion," Miss Rand declared the "nature of government is physical coercion," for the "government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force...
...appeal of the United Nations and other countries not to do so." said India's Nehru. "No amount of argument that it was done in self-defense would wash off the wrong." Brazil's President João Goulart protested "against all forms of international coercion, including the threatened atomic destruction of humanity." Malaya's Prime Minister Abdul Rahman called the Soviet tests "deplorable," said that they showed "utter contempt and disregard for world opinion...
...addition, Bunting's decision to let the Houses evolve separately with the advice and consent of the Hall Presidents has introduced a coercion of the disaffected by the energetic. It is harder for girls to ignore activities arranged or promoted by their confederates in the relatively close confines of the Halls than for Harvard students to remain inactive in the anonymity of the Houses. This will be less serious, of course, when activity centers in the larger House units instead of the relatively small dorms...