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Force Remains. The greatest fuss was made by those who had consistently overestimated the U.N.-either by regarding it as the supreme source of law and morality (the liberals), or as a world conspiracy to undermine U.S. and other nations' sovereignty (the right-wingers). The U.N. is, of course, neither...
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...fuss about the foreign soldiers employed by Tshombe, who are widely and bitterly denounced as "mercenaries"? Many of them are probably no less idealistic than the U.N. soldiers fighting against Katanga (who in turn are denounced as "mercenaries" by Tshombe). Other African states employ foreign officers, and many Americans recall that their own country was aided by idealistic "mercenaries" from Europe during the American Revolution...
...doesn't amount to a hill of beans.") But this year the still spiny "Cactus Jack" gaveled down the traditional birthday shivaree that in years past has drawn such guests as Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman and the late Sam Rayburn. Said Garner: "I don't want any fuss or anybody raising a ruckus. I feel good some of the time, but I don't feel so good at other times...
Massachusetts has made some progress since the days when it banned Dreiser's An American Tragedy, but not much. This week, for example, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was banned with no fuss, no hysteria, no monkey-trial shenanigans. It was a reasonable hearing in which reasonable men argued their sides before a reasonable judge. Yet the decision revealed that this is still the commonwealth of the Yahoos, the Grundys and the Comstocks...