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...gentlemen, in order to solicit your support in holding the balance even between the practical and immediate on the one hand and the fundamental and enduring on the other. For it is from ardent friends of the university that many of the demands arise that seem to me to threaten the long-term contributions of the Harvard company of scholars. We need have no fear that in these days we shall be too little concerned with the urgent problems of the moment. The pressures are all in one direction. There force, when the alumni meet here on Commencement afternoon...
Neither present laws no future ones offer any solution, since throttling the, extremes would inevitably threaten the moderates' freedom as well. The answer is the simple one that a democracy has always afforded to citizens: counterpressure, provided by the majority, only public realization of freedom's worth in education all public pressure to protect that freedom can rid communities of super-patriot footholds...
...unchanging Communist objective to obtain control of the entire Korean peninsula"-whether "this year, or five or ten years hence." The loss of Korea would "very definitely" threaten the security of Japan and "vitally menace the military security of the American people...
...carefully avoided any phrasing which would threaten a final break, but the Reds, who had suffered from temporary interruptions before, seemed anxious that the daily meetings continue. They did continue-in the form of 10-to-20-minute token sessions, mostly given over to Red stalling and propaganda. Perhaps the Communists were afraid that a breakoff would lead to heavier fighting, and that the defections in the U.N. prison camps-which had obviously surprised them-might spread to their fighting armies...
...citizens don't run wild in fear of the roof-top-stalking menace with a carbine and a good eye. The socialites act like socialites and demand the police "do something," and the newspapermen behave almost like newspapermen and threaten to turn the mayor out, of office if the killer is not caught. Except for a couple of lucky breaks, necessary to catch the sniper in an hour and a half, the police go through the dull routine of looking for tips on an unknown man who shoots almost anyone, anywhere, at any time...