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...Administration during the hearings was that the U.S. is ignoring the Chinese, driving them into implacable enmity and toward inevitably more aggressive policies. Only one of them, however, felt that the U.S. should not be in Viet Nam at all and should let the Chinese reign in their own "sphere of influence." He was the University of Chicago's Hans Morgenthau, a long-term critic of U.S. Viet Nam policies, who declared last week that all of Asia is China's proper sphere and disdained military containment of the Chinese as a step that will lead "sooner...
Administration critics charge that the Government's Asian policy casts the U.S. in the role of policeman to the world. This objection was seldom voiced during the height of the cold war, since these critics tend to believe that Europe is a legitimate sphere of influence for America. Last week, as he signed a bill authorizing U.S. participation in the $1 billion Asian Development Bank, the President rebutted the Europe-first approach as an "argument of isolationism." Said Johnson: "Asia must no longer sit at the second table of the 20th century's concern...
...skin another color. The economic net work of this shrinking globe is too intertwined, the political order of continents is too involved with one another, the threat of common disaster is too real for all human beings to say of Asia-or any other continent-'Yours is another sphere...
What God Has Joined. The new emphasis in Catholic opinion is the distinction between civil and religious law, each of which remains valid in its own sphere. The Catholic Church believes that marriage is a sacrament instituted by Christ, when he said, "What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder." Catholics who have been civilly divorced remain in good standing in the church if they do not remarry. Remarriage, however, is forbidden while the ex-spouse lives...
...tendency to write slightly off the news-analyzing one part of the world when the fire is burning in another. Viet Nam he hits headon. In answer to the neo-isolationism of a Walter Lippman, who argues that the U.S. is over-extended abroad, Sulzberger denies that the U.S. sphere of interest is geographically limited. "Greece and Iran," he wrote, "where U.S. determination forced Communist retreats in Stalin's day, were far from American shores-as were Korea, Lebanon, Laos and Viet...