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...Fund, one of the government's pet charity projects. "But," said Dalmia, "truly speaking, this was not pure charity . . . We gave . . . not because of reverence for the departed high soul, but because many of us were expecting that by so doing we would not be dragged into the sphere of action of the Income Tax Investigation Commission...
Speaking at a meeting of Council nominees from the Class of 1952, Panzer issued the following statement of aims: "If elected to the Student Council, I will do my utmost to abolish the Council and will do everything in my power to restrict its sphere of influence while I am carrying out my objective...
Western leaders had been stressing the political importance of keeping Germany in our sphere of influence and the nation's economic importance to European recovery. But Ernest Bevin stated that there would not be "a lot of courting of Germany to get them in" the Council. Adenauer, however, announced three conditions the Allies must accept before West Germany would consider entering. They were: 1) that a formal invitation to join be sent to the Bonn Parliament; 2) that the Saar issue be reviewed in the final peace treaty; 3) that West Germany have an observer on the Council's Committee...
...time when there were some who blared that nothing had changed-though an explosion, deep in the dark spaces of Russia, had wiped out the U.S.'s atomic advantage, and the loss of China had swung one-fifth of the world's population to the Soviet sphere. The fact was that in the space of eight months, the world's balance of power had shifted sharply toward the U.S.'s enemy...
...know with a deep conviction that it is not our fate to be just as the beasts of the field . . . If we bring to bear the full force of our spiritual nature to control and direct our corporate actions, by guiding our own individual action in the democratic sphere ... in accordance with the teachings of Christ, then we shall help to build up a corporate Christian conscience for our society which will give it the spiritual power to control the material forces that are at its service...