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...justification of the question I am asking does not depend upon the validity of the "reasons" which are given for my refusal to testify. They may be ill-founded. But all that is needed to justify my question is assurance that, at present, I find them true and cogent and, further, that they are offered as basis for a claim, not against self-incrimination, but for unqualified testimonial silence...
...complains that the Administration does not really know its own mind. "It's my Administration," he says. "It's a Republican Administration. I want to get along with them. But they don't seem to want to understand the issue. They haven't advanced one cogent argument against the principles of the resolution...
Despite the last-minute nervousness, the West knows what it wants at Berlin. A cogent State Department memorandum to U.S. diplomatic missions in Europe put the objectives roughly as follows: ¶ To reach agreement on a free, unified Germany, and thus open the way to a general European settlement. ¶ Failing that, to establish that U.S. proposals represent the only means of reestablishing a free, united Germany. ¶ To show that Western proposals on Germany form part of a program which takes into account security requirements of all Europe, and the Soviet Union too. ¶ To throw light on Soviet...
...presidential fireside chat is not an institution in France; but Vincent Auriol, impelled by the gravity of the hour, took to the radio last week with a few cogent words of admonition. "Dear compatriots," he said, "continuity of the Republic and the permanence of France . . . require civic concord, so my first wish is that we should reform at the earliest moment our political and social habits as well as certain institutions, that we should silence fatal passions and hatreds-those hatreds which I have sometimes had to suffer in the silence imposed by my high position, those hatreds which rend...
...Council regarding the showing of movies during the coming year. This agreement was reached at a meeting called by the Student Council and presided over by the Council's president, Paul Sheats. Because I do not believe any of the arguments in the editorial to be either cogent or valid, I will reply briefly...