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...Western public philosophy is a. shambles. Ways believes, for two principal reasons. First, modern thought has lost the sense of whole truths in a passion for fragmentation and the claim of science to a custody of "the only valid paths to knowledge." Secondly, the nation's intellectuals have lost touch with the magnificent heritage of Christian civilization that the founding fathers understood very well. The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to their new nation. They evidently foresaw a national purpose beyond survival ("lives'"), beyond mere national interest ("fortunes...
...year devoted to cautious, almost imperceptible maneuver against both Moslem rebels and self-professed French patriots, drew himself up at last to announce his plan for staunching the hemorrhage of civil war in Algeria. In Britain Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, capitalizing on the sunburst of Ike's public personality, quickly called elections that could give the Tories five more years in power...
...really knew in advance what De Gaulle was planning; at a Cabinet meeting last week, the general coolly informed his ministers that he would show them the speech he intended to make to the nation only on the morning of the broadcast. But the public and politicians felt sure that a "liberal" solution was coming-and everything De Gaulle did last week strengthened that belief. In a move clearly intended to head off potential army resistance, rightist General Andre Zeller, chief of staff of French ground forces, was replaced by Gaullist General Andre Demetz. And to the African Premiers...
Argentina grew out of experiences deceptively similar to those that made the U.S. strong-a frontier tradition of hard-riding gaucho and hard-working settler, a Buenos Aires melting pot that produced a prosperous middle class, a good public school system based on the ideas of egalitarian U.S. Educator Horace Mann. But the immigrant millions came mostly from impecunious southern Italy and Spanish Galicia, and their deepest hunger proved to be for economic security, not freedom. They added a significant saying to the Argentine speech: "Don't get involved." Their sons, who like their beefsteaks cut thick and their...
Seven weeks ago, when Turkish police arrested four U.S. sergeants stationed at NATO's southeastern headquarters in Izmir for alleged currency violations, U.S. Consul in Izmir Donald B. Eddy publicly pooh-poohed reports that two of the sergeants had been tortured into making confessions. Informed that a senior U.S. officer in the NATO command had supported the brutality charges, Eddy firmly informed newsmen: "In my opinion it is impossible for a responsible American officer to make such a statement." Last week the Izmir public prosecutor's office formally charged Police Inspector Yilmaz Capin and Policeman Ilhan Suyolcu with...