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California and Illinois. I need 80% in those states or I'm a dead duck." There was. as predicted, a good deal of nastiness in the campaign that brought Meyer to the presidency. One hundred leaders issued a manifesto raising the "religious issue." Could a member of the Jewish faith be objective to Israel...
Last week's meeting produced a manifesto by the N.C.W.C.'s board chairman, Archbishop Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati: "In the event that a federal aid program is enacted which excludes children in private schools, these children will be the victims of discriminatory legislation. There will be no alternative but to oppose such discrimination." The N.C.W.C.'s counterproposal, which it holds to be "strictly" constitutional, is that "longterm, low-interest loans to private institutions could be part of the federal aid program." The hierarchy will push to attach such an amendment to the Kennedy bill...
Since the days when the Marshall Plan silently and efficiently rebuilt Europe, no phrase has possessed a more magic significance for the policy planner on a grand scale than "foreign aid." The professor who writes a manifesto for American action in foreign affairs, the Presidential candidate who appeals for his country's generosity and sacrifice as the qualities most essential for moving ahead, the President who delivers a moving State of the Union message on the wretched state of the underdeveloped countries: each one prophesies that if the cold war is to be won, and the suffering and poverty...
...table-thumping performance at the United Nations is evidence of this return to post-war Stalinism and the rigid division of East and West into two absolutely opposed camps, he claimed. Moscow's inability to do anything but tone down the "obvious crudities" of Chinese policy in the Manifesto is proof that Mao Tse-Tung can intervene successfully in Russia's internal affairs...
Challenging the United States to "escape from a sterile foreign policy formed by accident and bureaucracy," Mr. Browder cited need for a positive program attacking poverty and supporting national liberation. Since the new Manifesto guarantees that the communist ideological struggle with the West will be uncompromising, the "intellectually paralyzed" U.S. must take advantage of the fact that a "monolithic unity does not exist in the communist world...