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Died. Thomas Sovereign Gates, 75, onetime Morgan partner, longtime (1930-44) president of the University of Pennsylvania, and chairman of its board of trustees since 1944; in Osterville, Mass. A wealthy Philadelphian, he gave up banking to run his alma mater, without pay, for the sake of "romance and high adventure...
...time in the world's history when the need for such a constitution was more desperate and the chances of its adoption more remote than ever. Not even the drafting committee itself had been able to agree on the noble synopsis of salvation, to which half a hundred sovereign nations would have to agree before it could become reality. The committee's own chairman, Philosopher Richard McKeon, refused to sign the draft because he disagreed with it. Said Hutchins: the report was something to talk about...
...commercial interests are so concerned with practicalities, they might well calculate the damage a Palestine debacle would do to the United Nations. A speedy, well-policed partition would enhance its prestige immeasurably, while a week policy will turn the U.N. into little more than a watery organization for completely sovereign nations. The United Nations is on the block today, but the statesmen still refuse to enforce partition. They pray for a last minute reconciliation between Jews and Arabs. Reconciliation is hopeless...
...year-old Prime Minister Don Stephen ("Jungle John") Senanayake hauled the old Lion flag to its place atop the Temple of the Tooth.* By a peaceful act of Britain's Parliament, Ceylon-like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, India and Pakistan-had become a sovereign dominion of the British Commonwealth...
...Hope. He sees no hope in U.N. as it is now, calling it "a weak league of sovereign, armed states preparing for war." As his ideas took shape, he framed a program. He wants: 1) an agreement among all nations to surrender their arms to U.N., retaining only a force big enough to keep internal order; 2) a U.N. police force to defend all nations from aggression; and 3) an Assembly acting as the world's chief legislative body, with a Security Council acting as a Cabinet...