Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and a Lutheran seminarian, I might say that the Rev. Dr. Oswald C. J. Hoffmann does not speak for "us Lutherans." Many seminarians and, I'm sure, many pastors in parish work feel that our parochial schools should receive federal aid. Since we support public education with our tax money, it is only fair that the federal government aid our church schools...
...small multilateral dispensers of aid have been notably successful with their limited methods of handling development assistance. One reason for this success, of course, is that beneficiary nations have no terrors of binding strings that they feel are often attached to unilateral aid. The U.N. Special Fund (under Paul Hoffmann) and Eugene Black's International Bank for Reconstruction and Development have been nearly paragonally tactful as well as helpful. To these, as well as to the Colombo Pact and the new International Development Association should go an increasing amount of the U.S. foreign aid budget. The bulk, of course, must...
...understand the problem of Algeria, Hoffmann maintained, one must understand the "psychological obstinacy" of French President de Gaulle. The French President has demonstrated in Madagascar, in the Ivory Coast and in Guinea that he is willing to permit colonial liberation--on the condition that France grant the liberation without pressure from internal revolutions, Hoffmann said...
...role of the U.S., Hoffmann argued, must be to make both sides aware of the other's position by "secret diplomacy" and to put "mild pressure" on both to accept a "mutually face-saving" cease-fire. Considering the past immaturity of U.S. foreign policy, Hoffmann expressed doubt that the Kennedy Administration would prove capable of "enough subtlety" to handle the explosive situation...
...Hoffmann declared that the U.S. must face the antiquity of its atomic "secrets," and pointed out that Europe is rapidly developing facilities for the manufacture of nuclear weapons. He went on to describe the problem of NATO as a possessor of nuclear deterrents...