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...remember. In the independent Die Presse, which published the Gruber memoirs, there appeared one day a chapter relating how Austrian Communists sat down with leaders of Gruber's own Catholic People's Party in 1947 to negotiate a partnership. People's Party leaders-including, implied Gruber, ex-Chancellor Leopold Figl and the present Chancellor Julius Raab-agreed to force the militantly anti-Red Socialists out of the coalition government and to make a Communist stooge Chancellor, in return for concessions from Moscow. "Such a catastrophe and criminal nonsense must be prevented," Gruber recalls himself as saying then...
...naivete of the ex-Chancellor is less amazing when his career is considered. He was a lawyer with a respectable practice, with no experience in criminal cases and no knowledge of U.S. law. He was a Liberal member of Parliament until the Liberals began to collapse and he lost his seat. He joined the Labor Party, got back in the House of Commons, where he served with fidelity to his party but without any great distinction, except that he had one of the most mellifluous speaking voices in British public life. Attorney General under Labor's Ramsay MacDonald, Solicitor...
After two years of living and working in Southern California (for the Ford Foundation). ex-Chancellor Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago had begun to feel that he was not the same old Hutchins: he was suffering from an "intellectual deterioration" that suggested itself by "a kind of involuntary mellowness." Last week, when he returned to the university to deliver a series of lectures on education, he proved himself mellowed in part. Instead of lambasting U.S. education directly, he contented himself with painting a picture of a Hutchinesque Utopia-a land where everyone knows that "a university...
Having passed the eleventh birthday of ex-Chancellor Robert Hutchins' famed theory that a student should be allowed to earn a bachelor's degree as quickly as he is able, the University of Chicago announced that it was setting up some pretty old-fashioned requirements for its new B.S.: four whole years, "as in other colleges.'' Did this mean that Chicago would backtrack on Hutchins completely? Hinted Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton: "We've tried our innovation for eleven years, hoping that many other colleges and universities would join us. They haven't. There comes...
When U.S. educators recite their favorite injunction, "Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," what sort of truth do they mean? Last week, in his annual report to the Carnegie Foundation, President Oliver C. (for Cromwell) Carmichael, ex-Chancellor of Vanderbilt University and long a ranking U.S. educator himself, gives his own blistering answer to the question. In the course of his answer, he flatly accuses his fellow educators of too often confusing truth with a collection of undigested facts...