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...keep the world from collapsing, the U.S. is exporting animals as well as statesmen, technicians and businessmen. Both animals and men need physical and mental conditioning to become citizens of a strange and troubled world...
...small apartment outside Jerusalem last week, an old man read telegrams from scholars and statesmen all over the world. All week, Jerusalem had been celebrating Judah Magnes' 70th birthday. The Palestine Broadcasting Co. arranged a special program in his honor; the great Hebrew University, which he helped to found and has headed for 22 years, presented him with its first honorary degree...
...other hand, U.N. still commanded the respect of statesmen because it was a forum for mustering world opinion. The organization's high point had come in April 1946, when it made the Red Army get out of Persia. Thus, thanks largely to U.N. and its imposing moral force, Persia had a Government free of Russian domination...
...Charter Day itself, U.N. broadcast brief, cautious messages from leading statesmen...
...guest, the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul, called "a whole year of unremitting celebration." The fourth oldest college in the U.S. had honored its past by inviting men from all over the world to discuss the World's future. Throughout the year, hundreds of statesmen and scholars, including Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, Philosopher William E. Hocking, Physicists Karl T. Compton and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, had come & gone...