Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Frenchmen took that as a clear warning: as he had done once before in 1946, when displeased with Frenchmen, President Charles de Gaulle might simply resign his high position and go quietly back home to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. What then? Not the least of the anomalies of present-day France is that under the constitution of the Fifth Republic. De Gaulle's place would be taken by the president of the French Senate: Gaston Monnerville, a 64-year-old Negro from French Guiana...
Unless we resign ourselves to crawling underground and re-emerging into a world of ruin, we must work to avert an attack. Threats of retailiation are not sufficient, because fear does not prevent mistakes and accidents, and may, in fact, make them more likely. Fear builds more weapons, and weapons more fear. The fools are those who assume we can go on as we are. Fast-moving technology, from which we can not escape, calls for radical politics, and presents Kennedy's greatest challenge...
Five hundred Zionist delegates from Western countries were grim. World Zionist President Nahum Goldmann, who has threatened to resign if Ben-Gurion does not stop attacking him, admitted sadly that the goal of Zionism is not fulfilled when "less than one-fifth of the Jewish people is concentrated in its homeland." But Rose Halprin, U.S. acting chairman of the Jewish Agency, said flatly: "Mass immigration from the United States is just not in the cards. We will make schizophrenics of our children if we tell them they are not living in their real homeland, that their homeland is really...
...exact opposite might prove to be true. The Anglican and the Dutch Reformed Churches find themselves drawn together in mutual concern, as they have not been since Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank of Capetown threatened to resign from the World Council of Churches if the Dutch Reformed Churches did not mend their racial ways. At the close of the World Council consultation, Archbishop de Blank rose and begged forgiveness from the Dutch Reformed Church men for any hurt he might previously have caused in his impassioned campaigning. Promptly and warmly they forgave him. Says Alan Paton: "The archbishop...
Commenting on the Fall's resignations, Minot W. Tripp '61, HYDC president said that these were nothing unusual. In the course of each year members of the Executive Committee resign for various reasons, including disagreement with executive policy...