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...delegates issued a statement of policy, asserting that "the 28 Evangelical dioceses in the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic stand together in the spirit of united Christians." To renounce unity because of political differences "would have the church serve the goddess of the state." The manifesto concluded: "We therefore have no reason to sever our bonds with the community of the Evangelical Church in Germany. The Lord who forgives us our trespasses will give us the strength to serve him in ever greater freedom...
Another coup came in a full-page ad in the London Times of June 9, 1960. It read in part: "'A Hurricane of Common Sense´--that was the headline in a newspaper read by the leaders of Washington. It refers to the manifesto Ideology and Co-existence ... It puts squarely to the modern world the choice--Moral Re-Armamnet or Communism...
...read by the leaders of Washington turns out to be not the Washington Post but the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Advertiser, a free sheet dropped on the doorsteps of suburban Washington homes. A right-wing columnist named "Tar" Paulin, the paper's publisher wrote: "As I progressed through [the MRA manifesto's] 31 pages of text something almost wonderous (sic) and magical happened to me. My cynicism gave way to a deeper, greater emotion--moral re-armament ... I'm a dedicated anticommie. I cheer Moral ReArmament. Its litle pamphlet is like a hurricane of commonsense sweeping away the fog of confusion...
...called The Revolution in Psychiatry that California Social Psychiatrist Martin Hoffman rates as "one of the most important theoretical works written in psychiatry in the last quarter-century." Becker has also written a primer on Zen and a critique of U.S. education that the Daily Californian praised as "a manifesto for academic revolution...
...distinction between an academic matter like rank-in-class and a political matter like conduct of the Vietnam war does not make the Columbia manifesto any less a victory for anti-Vietnam war forces. And when a college of Columbia's stature joins the no-rank club, there is a good chance that it may initiate a snowball effect. The argument presented at Harvard, and elsewhere, that faculties should refrain from concerted action, is in no logical way weakened as more schools refuse to release ranks--just because everyone is doing it does not make it right. But the argument...