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...loyalty to himself. Thus, despite four years of U.S. effort, two major reorganizations and countless smaller ones, the primary requirement for responsible Chinese command is still personal. The determining characteristic of Chinese commanders is too often a paralyzing fear of taking any initiative without the Generalissimo's direct sanction...
...Malley was perplexed by the fact that the Eastern College Athletic Conference had ruled that he could compete in regular season games, since all but the McGill game had been under N.C.A.A. sanction. "What's the difference between playing games here and out West?" he asked...
...consequence to upset, existing convictions: that is precisely its purpose and its justification. He is. indeed, a ''subversive'' who disputes those precepts that I most treasure and seeks to persuade me to substitute his own. He may be of those to whom any forcible sanction of conformity is anathema; yet it remains true that he is trying to bring about my apostasy, and I hate him just in proportion as I fear his success. Heretics have been hateful from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed and butchered...
...turned out that their experiment, though born out of innocent curiosity, violated a college ruling against publicizing the Wellesley name without official sanction. And in addition, the "Syndicate" members suddenly became rather unpopular with their dorm-mates, who found it hard to get used to the 3 a.m. telephone calls...
...after the Revolution had swept away even the paper disabilities of religious minorities, Moses Seixas wrote to President Washington on behalf of the Jews of Newport, R. I. to tell him how thankful they were to be living under "a government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance." Wrote Washington in reply: "It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. [In this nation] everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine...