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...amendment would be more of a hindrance than a safeguard. It could be interpreted as encouraging test cases on all foreign dealings. As long as the possibility of judicial guillotine hangs over all treaties, neither this country nor foreign parties can conclude agreements with any great degree of confidence or certainty. In addition, encouragement of test cases would have immense nuisance value for determined domestic agitators and subversives. The vagueness and seeming innocuousness of the proposed amendment leaves it open to obstructive and dangerous interpretation...
Democratic Peace. The Republicans, charged De Sapio, are attempting to "gorge the American voter on this charming metaphoric morsel-peace and prosperity. The Republicans talk of peace as if it were something which they invented and . . . which only they could safeguard. They ignore the fact that peace, as it exists today, is the direct result of the bipartisan foreign policy worked out by the Democratic Administration...
Nasser, no Communist, gave his reasons for taking such a risky course. "We insist.'' he said, "on securing arms for our army to safeguard our revolution and our independence, and to preserve our dignity.'' The fact that Israel (pop. 1,700,000) has an army more than twice the size of Egypt's (pop. 22.5 million) is a constant source of humiliation to Nasser's military junta. It enables Israel to move in and out of the demilitarized border zone of El Auja with impunity, as it did last week, and it gives...
...hysteria from reappearing with a toughening of the Soviet line? The Landys and the Ladijinskys may get their commissions and keep their jobs now, but would they be so fortunate if the Cold Peace were once again the Cold War? Clearly, more than the Geneva spirit is needed to safeguard the rights and liberties so recently attacked...
...Safeguard of Character. In the course of its inquiries the committee came across a lot of evidence to confirm what every experienced serviceman and ex-serviceman knows: that pride in one's unit is the cement, whether at base, in the line, or in P.W. camps of Korea. "Many servicemen exhibited pride in themselves and their units," the committee reported, discussing the one encouraging portent of the P.W. camps. "This was particularly pronounced where they had belonged to the same unit for years. They stood by one another . . . If a soldier were sick, his fellow soldiers took care...