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...said that he would stay at Harvard to give the concluding lecture of his Godkin series tonight--a talk in which he promised to discuss the Tory government's Middle East policies. In the past, Gaitskell has spoken out quite strongly against the Anglo-French action in the Suez area...
...leader of the British Labor Party, in his second Godkin Lecture at Sanders Theatre discussed weaknesses in both NATO and the Soviet bloc, and then put forth his plan for a wide neutral bloc composed of Germany and the satellites as part of "a comprehensive European security plan, in which the various states in the neutral zone would have their territories guaranteed by the great powers as well as by each other...
This bureaucratic socialist, who tonight will be giving his final Godkin lecture, may not succeed in his attempt to force the conservatives to "go to the country." But whether he reaches Downing Street now or a decade from now, his influence in shaping Britain's domestic and foreign policy can be of crucial importance in directing his nation toward an expanding role as a laboratory of democracy...
...first of his three Godkin Lectures, he said, "I believe that the U.N. with all its weaknesses can play an important part in meeting the challenge of co-existence," and "it is the special responsibility of the Great Powers who believe in the U.N. Charter to give the necessary leadership...
...Godkin Lecture fund was established in 1903 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, founder of "The Nation" and editor of the New York Evening Post, to provide yearly lectures on "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen." Recent Godkin lecturers have included Adlai E. Stevenson, John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Ralph Flanders of Vermont; Harold E. Stassen, and last year, Chester W. Bowles, former U.S. Ambassador to India...