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...Fr. Leonard Feeney, director of the center, said that the group sued the Government's Board of Collegiate Authority to find out whether it had properly removed eligible for the G.I. Bill...
...Swiss philosopher Attlee quoted was Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-81), professor of esthetics and philosophy at Geneva, whose one book, Amiel's Journal, influenced many 19th Century British liberals. Amiel was more "neutral" than Attlee's quotation indicated. Elsewhere in his Journal Amiel had this to say about Americans: "They must win gold, predominance, power; crush rivals, subdue nature. They have their heart set on the means and never...think of the end...They are eager, restless, positive, because they are superficial. To what end all this stir, noise, greed, struggle...
When Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie was fired last April as head of France's Atomic Energy Commission, 13 fellow members protested. "We wish to assure M. Joliot-Curie," they said,."that in spite of this measure he retains our entire confidence and our profound attachment...
...Paris, when Communist Scientist-Professor Frédéric Joliot-Curie walked into the Collège de France auditorium for a lecture on atomic physics, he was greeted with a volley of catcalls, stink bombs and firecrackers. By the time the cops arrived, the explosive students had disappeared...
...absurd and dangerous mockery of Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie at the head of France's Atomic Research Commission (TIME, April 17) came to an end last week. Premier Georges Bidault announced, "with regret," the dismissal of the Red nuclear physicist. "Whatever the qualifications of this scientist," said the Premier, "his public statements and his unreserved acceptance of the [pro-Russian] resolutions . . . of the Communist Party make it impossible to maintain him in his functions of High Commissioner...