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...because world opinion insistently demanded it as a step which represented elemental justice. In the same way world opinion will act as a compulsion on the Soviet Union to relax its grip upon East Germany and to permit the unification of Germany. Also, I believe that world opinion will compel the restoration of national independence to the captive states of Eastern Europe. Independence must also come to those dependent countries whose people desire independence and are capable of sustaining it. We can, and indeed we must, look forward to an era of peaceful change. We do not seek other than...
...unprecedented number of requests for parking permits from resident undergraduates will probably compel the University to expand the Business School parking area this fall, Charles C. Pyne, Assistant to the Administrative Vice President, said yesterday...
What probably saved the government was the knowledge that the resignation of Faure, a member of the moderate Left, might compel the right-wing parties to form their own government. This in turn would probably consolidate the non-Communist Left (Socialists, left-wing Catholics, some Radicals) against them in a coalition led by ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France. Whatever happens in Morocco, or anywhere else, the right-wingers are determined to keep energetic little Mendès from climbing back to power. The right-wing game is to use Faure (a fellow Radical of Mend...
...House of Lords," and as usual Everyone admitted that "something" ought to be done. Last week, the government-in the person of the Lords' Tory leader, the Marquis of Salisbury-moved that a committee be appointed to study what powers, if any, the Lords had to compel their members to attend sessions. Guy Fawkes and his powder barrels could not have created more alarm...
...second aim should be to repeal the compulsory school attendance law; we should not leave in the Code any provision that might compel Virginia parents, white or Negro, to send their children to any given school against their will...