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Creation of a world government such as the one the World Federalists request would be a "wild leap" which might destroy the little international cooperation we now have, John H. Mansfield '50, said last night in defense of the United Nations. He spoke in a debate between two members of the Harvard World Federalists and two representatives of the Harvard UN Council...
Laureano, his angry face as red-veined as a banknote, met this challenge personally. "When Conservative lips proclaim peace," he told the nominating convention last week, "they do so with sincerity. Our hearts are not poisoned with hateful desires to destroy the Christian order and replace it with Communist tyranny. We offer peace in the fullest sense of liberty and justice...
...would be shot down before it reached its target: "Today . . . American planes by day or by night and at all speeds and altitudes which the B-36 can operate on military missions, can locate the bomber, intercept the bomber, close on the bomber, and destroy the bomber . . . It is folly to assume that a potential enemy cannot do as well . . . The unescorted B-36 is unacceptably vulnerable...
...nets. We found they were very economical fishermen to boot. When a Dutch fisher man reaches his favorite fish hole, he generally shinnies up the mast and blows out all his riding lights to save kerosene. This means that at any moment the erstwhile yachtsman is prone to destroy the means of a fisherman's livelihood with a sharp blow below the waterline...
...When enough atomic bombs to destroy an opponent's major cities have been accumulated by both sides, the degree of dispersal of industry and population is the standard of a nation's ability to continue to fight," Meyer said...