Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dedication of a memorial to Francis Scott Key, author of The Star-Spangled Banner, President Eisenhower last week drove to tiny (200 students) St. John's College at Annapolis. There, to the students in the line of Key (class of 1796), the President spoke on a subject of absorbing interest to him. There is, he said, no longer any validity in such terms as "foreign affairs" or "foreign policy," but rather, such matters are."essentially local affairs for every nation, including our own." Said Dwight Eisenhower: "The concerns of 'foreign' policy are not something remote and apart...
...distinguished gentleman present had his own version of the visitor's reception. "The man's a pathological case," said the Air Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Heye Schaper. Said President Cornelis Kolff of the Dutch Aeronautical Association: "The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole subject." "The Queen," said Professor Maarten Rooy of the University of Amsterdam, "sat impassive-a hostess who does not want to offend a guest...
Every year as the workmen in the Yard hurry to finish the Tercentenary Theatre for Commencement exercises, speculation begins over the awarding of Harvard's Honorary Degrees. Traditionally one of the most tightly kept secrets in the University, the honorary degrees are invariably the CRIMSON'S favorite subject for "informed" guessing...
Admittedly, even all these concessions, though extremely unpleasant, do not imply immediate surrender of any essentials. The trouble with this proposal is that it doesn't solve anything: West Berlin would be nominally free, but it would still be subject to extreme pressure from the outside; West Germany might be in NATO, but East Germany would remain in the War-saw Pact. The current crisis has taught the West that any negotiated settlement cannot leave Germany divided and Berlin a vulnerble island...
...policy, for decisions are made only by the Administration and the Faculty, and there is understandable doubt that the Council can convince the powers that be. In the only other sphere of Council influence, undergraduate organizations, there is general agreement that student groups should retain independence and not be subject to Council control...