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Comment is getting there; this year's second (November) issue is better looking than the first and, on the whole, better written. In time the magazine may establish itself as a respected forum for articulate student discussion of political problems. articles of the quality of Christopher Z. Hobson's "Two For the See-Saw" will certainly help it make the grade...
...Hobson's article is an argument for a new approach to foreign policy, generally known as "unilateral initiative." Mr. Hobson's argument for it is clear, well-organized, and spirited but not logically infallible...
Unfortunately, Mr. Hobson has chosen to rest his case on a metaphor suggested by Professor Charles Osgood of the University of Illinois. Osgood describes the actions of two men standing on either side of a see-saw. When one takes a step backward, the other is obliged to do likewise to preserve the equilibrium of the system. As the two men continue to move backward to the ends of the see-saw, the board on which they are standing strains to the cracking point, and the balance becomes more precarious...
Jennifer Simon '64 and Christopher E. Hobson '63 were sharply questioned by students at the commonwealth school after they discussed the likelihood and magnitude of a nuclear catastrophe, and the arguments for and against civil defense...
When Ron Carver, an eleventh grade student at Commonwealth, asked how TOCSIN different from "SANE and other groups," Hobson outlined the organization's study of unilateral initiatives which should be urged on the government...