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...Church deserves every opportunity to make its point of view clear to its parishioners and to the public at large. But enforcing widespread unofficial censorship by supra-legal means is certainly beyond the proper sphere of any particular organization or pressure group...
Spaak and his colleagues have even taken pains to play down the supranational features of the Common Market. But for all Spaak's understandable reluctance to indulge in grandiose talk of supra-nationalism, it is clear that the interlocking of economies that would come with the Common Market would make another Franco-German war highly unlikely, and in time would probably lead the Six to adopt a common budget and, hence, a considerable degree of political unity...
...order to gain that action, we must have full co-operation from all the nations of the world. This co-operation depends upon the willingness of nations to relinquish certain prerogatives of action to a supra-national body, the United Nations, in the case of international conflicts. The nations must submit to a single code of action under law. This law, furthermore, must be enforceable under a world police force. Only under such a system can the United Nations assure the world's people that they may enjoy peace under adequate protection. C. Michael Lanphier 58, Vice-President, Harvard World...
Almost fifty years ago, a professor tried to persuade the Harvard Faculty to approve a proposed half-course in the international language known as Esperanto. He explained at great length the advantages of a supra-national system of communication and clinched his point--or so he thought--by estimating that any one could learn Esperanto in three weeks. His motion, however, was defeated almost unanimously. "It's not worth devoting a half-course to anything which can be learned in three weeks," one of his colleagues observed at the time...
...chance at present for permanent success. There are 3,000 languages in current use, he points out, and it is ridiculous to assume that any one tongue, necessarily based on one culture, can be imposed on the world. Only in a one-culture world will any language become supra-national of its own accord, and such a situation does not exist today. The Soviet Union is currently waging a successful campaign to teach Russian to every one in the USSR--there are about 100 different languages spoken--but it is accomplishing this only through force...