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...vote endorsing his policies in the Congo, briefly but eloquently punctured Khrushchev's proposal to abolish the office of Secretary-General in favor of a veto-ridden three-man directorate. Implicitly accusing the Soviets of trying to oust him because he had opposed their attempts to subvert the Congo in defiance of U.N. resolutions, Hammarskjold took up their challenge. Said he: "I would rather see the office of Secretary-General break on strict adherence to the principles of independence, impartiality and objectivity than drift on the basis of compromise...
...other words, Black manages to succeed in a very small way in clearing up some of the confusion about charity, conscience, and self-interest. Charity is not enough, because the blind giving of funds may subvert economies rather than develop them; self-interest--looking at the poor third of the world as an economic battle-field in a giant bipolar struggle--may be "competing with the Communists on their own terms." The rationale of competition, as Rostow has pointed out, is not a necessary one. The recent rapid diffusion of military power leads one to suspect that it will...
There is no doubt that there were several Communist party members and fellow travellers among the twenty-four, but most were simply swept up by the energy of the European student groups. Most were unaware of the Russian Communist plot to create the organization, then subvert it and turn it into a front for Communist propaganda. The existence of that plot was confirmed several years later by a man who had been working with Allied intelligence in Austria. He told an NSA national officer that he had found out plans of the Communist group, which urged the formation...
...pilgrimage of life goes on, other temptations crop up to distract and subvert the voyager. The temptations of the desert become, in America, the allurements of society...
...conclusion, Halsey warned against seeking technological supremacy through education. "A society worshiping productivity," he said, "converts its colleges into technological schools for industrial expansion." Furthermore, he added, "the never-ending search for technology will subvert civilization...