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...purpose in such situations is to prevent international violence, or, if violence comes, to restrict it. Lord Home is quite right when he warns that tacit approval of Nehru's Goan adventure will open the door to a perilous new era of petty wars and territorial brigandage. But he is quite wrong in thinking that there is an alternative to the UN. Dag Hammarskjold wanted an active, vigorous UN executive who would settle explosive situations before international violence broke out--this concept is plainly offensive to Britain's Foreign Secretary. If the UN adopted the British theory of being simply...
...more hope in tacit, parallel restraints. These, he claimed, "do not assume a sudden, radical alternation in human nature. After all, if you feel that man remains pig-headed enough to start a war if he is not disarmed, how can you believe he has suddenly become rational enough to willingly give up his arms?" An informal agreement, less restrictive of sovereignty and less threatening to security than an inspected arms ban, might have more effect, Hoffmann concluded...
Efforts of the small group of volunteers to register Negroes in rural areas of the South have caused a "tightening" among the white supremacist, McDew related. The normal race-hatred groups and individuals have the tacit if not the active support of the local law enforcement agencies, he asserted...
Conquering Design. Stevenson argued that the admission of Red China would 1) be irreversible. 2) add a "disruptive and demoralizing influence" to the U.N., 3) shake public confidence in the U.N., especially in the U.S., "and this alone would significantly weaken the organization," and 4) give tacit consent to Red China's "design to conquer Taiwan and the eleven million people who live there...
Perhaps in tacit recognition of this absence, Council candidates and incumbents alike have refrained from any recriminations which might tend to underscore it. Some School Committee hopefuls, however, have raked over the past loudly and come up with what amounts to an articulation of emptiness. Their inability to locate any real dirt which the incumbent Committee might have hidden under the rug only serves to indicate that Cambridge has a decent and improving school system, abetted by a progressive School Committee...