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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a line-sometimes difficult to identify but always a vital demarcation-between punishing for individual acts of subversion and punishing for adherence to political sentiments. Up to now, the American machinery of justice has operated on the premise that an individual can and should be punished for committing specific wrongs, but not solely for holding an opinion that is heretical to our concept of democracy. Stealing state secrets, conspiring to advocate the forceful overthrow of government or encouraging sabotage are included in the category of specific, punishable wrongs. Indicating an interest in Marxist philosophy or holding a membership...
...bustle of European statesmen that began with the death of EDC slowed to a walk last week, and the anger simmered down to workaday asperity. Yet, oddly enough, the new pace did not necessarily mean a slackening of urgency; it reflected a feeling that the difficult process of rearming the Germans had better be done right this time...
...small-town Rotary meeting Citizens' Councillors present were asked for a show of hands. More than two-thirds of the Rotarians admitted membership in the C.C. Said William J. Caraway, mayor of upstate Leland (pop. 5,000): "We are trying a peaceful and intelligent approach to a very difficult problem. We aren't Ku Kluxers, but if we fail, a Klan-type group will surely follow...
Once, long ago, Sir Winston Churchill asked Adenauer: "Mr. Chancellor, if you had one wish, what would it be?" Adenauer replied without hesitation: "A strong France." He believed that working with a strong France would be difficult, but with a weak France, impossible...
Faced by the difficult and dangerous decisions of the cold war, some of the Western world's statesmen-notably Prime Minister Winston Churchill-have spoken wishfully on occasion of the possibility of peaceful coexistence with the Communists. Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester B. Pearson has often veered off in the same direction. But as his nation's chief delegate to the Geneva conference he has had a bellyful of Communist negotiators. Last week he took a realistic look at the problems of sharing a planet with the Reds; in a speech at a meeting of Canadian...