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...then insist that Red China also must accept arms inspection as the price of admission? This might even act as a spur for them to put pressure on each other. However, in the meantime, for the free and neutral nations to have to take on faith two such world-conquest-minded troublemakers (when the one already in the United Nations will not submit to inspection) would merely compound all of the other problems...
...sanction "at a time when literature flourished under clerical auspices and when nine tenths of the corpus poeticum derived from Biblical paraphrases and martyrologies. . ." In ballads and morality plays the two roles were already being joined, and the mere physical presence of the Jews in England between the Norman Conquest and their expulsion under Edward I did nothing to change the myth. In Chaucer's "The Prioress's Tale" the twin roles are set. In Marlow's Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice the composite portraits are given their final expression and the final punisments are meted...
Another delusion is that of unilateral disarmament and Gandhi-like nonviolence. Hungary 1956, Jaspers makes clear, is the way Russia would have dealt with Gandhi. World government is an abstraction dear to many, but Jaspers insists that it could only be established by conquest and maintained by despotism. Harshly he calls the U.N. "a basic untruth." Its executive power depends "not on the United Nations but solely on the policies of the sovereign powers...
...bomb-laden, has led to panaceas, abstractions and frauds in the quest for peace. Peaceful coexistence is one such fraud, according to Jaspers: "Peace never comes from coexistence, only from cooperation." What happens under the formula of coexistence is that "one side is hiding its will to eventual world conquest by coercion, the other its will to world conquest by persuasion...
Last year's Christmas tournament was highlighted by a wild brawl between players and fans and a second place finish to a powerful Toronto team. The tournament, held in Boston, saw impressive Crimson victories over Brown, Colby, and Northeastern, and a thrilling 5 to 4 conquest of the Providence College Friars...