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...Politically, we are pursuing policies which are very different and are leading us in entirely opposite directions," said 72-year-old Lord Malvern, the former Sir Godfrey Huggins, who heads the Federation. Malvern inherited and believes in Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes's dictum: "Equal rights for all civilized men," which implies suffrage and full citizenship for qualified, educated blacks. "We do not think [apartheid] is suitable for us," said Malvern. "The Union of South Africa believes that it is divinely inspired by God to lead its people into a Republican promised land where white supremacy will be permanent . . . This...
Through direct grants to universities for specific research projects and through two subsidiary funds set up expressly for the support of education, the Ford Foundation has fulfilled the dictum expressed by the trustees in 1953: "Education in its broadest sense is perhaps the single most promising means for improving human welfare and has been supported in various ways by almost every grant we have made...
Some lawyers questioned whether Judge Gorman's dictum could have any widespread practical effect on the legitimacy of test-tube babies. When a husband accepts and represents a child as his own, its legitimacy is established to the satisfaction of most jurisdictions...
Archbishop Fisher's "devastating dictum," describing everybody who is not a Communist or a convinced Christian as an amiable nonentity, smacks of self-adulation and strikes me as "somewhat less than humility. I wonder what the gentle Christ would say to that on the occasion of His second coming...
Attlee is a firm believer in the dictum that he who stands up to a stampede only gets stomped on; the way to handle a stampede is to ride with it, and perhaps turn it. But in trying to turn the coexistence stampede, Attlee the moderate had ridden closer and closer to the Bevanite position. Last week some began to wonder whether Clem Attlee was trying to turn the stampede or lead...