Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral equivalent does not need finding. It needs only acceptance and action. It was written down for all to read 1,000 years...
...Moral Equivalent...
...dilemma could only be solved ... by finding the moral equivalent of the atomic bomb" (TIME...
Grimly, Johnson said that the U.S. was ready, if the Russians continued to deadlock the Council, to throw the whole case into the 55-nation U.N. General Assembly this September. There, unhampered by the veto, the majority of nations might pronounce an overwhelming moral judgment which would support U.S. aid to Greece. With such a mandate, said Johnson, the U.S. and "like-minded members of the United Nations" could join "in taking any steps which might become necessary . . . to afford Greece the protection to which she is entitled under the Charter...
Often Neill is voted down by the council. Once he tried to introduce automatic fines for swearing. He took a shrewd line: "Why should I suffer if some fathead swears in front of a prospective parent? It's not a moral question at all; it is purely financial. You swear and I lose a pupil." Said a 14-year-old: "Neill is talking rot. If the parent is shocked he doesn't believe in Summerhill anyway." The council decided to go on swearing...