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...honest advocate of peace and disarmament must start by saying that things have never looked worse," declared H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, last night at a Tocsin meeting...
Halting the arms race may entail the use of arms race policy models and psychology, a disarmament expert suggested at a Tocsin meeting last night...
Louis B. Sohn, professor of Law, told a Tocsin audience last night that "for the first time in the last 50 years there is a ray of hope" in the realm of international peace-making...
...only elaboration on this story was to tell Mr. Paisner that I agree with Tocsin's principle of unilateral initiatives towards disarmament provided they did not jeopardize our security, though I might disagree on specifics. This comment was not reported. For the rest, I urged Mr. Paisner to read the transcript of the Tuesday evening, October 3rd, WGBH program on the Stowe Conference...
Only once did he sound any kind of tocsin. Under the same roof where another Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket, was martyred in 1170 to preserve his church's integrity, Ramsey served notice on the state that he would "ask for a greater freedom in the ordering and in the urgent revising of our forms of worship." In 1928 the House of Commons rejected the established church's request for permission to make changes in its liturgy in order to enforce more liturgical discipline upon clerics whose services ranged from quasi-Roman to semi-Congregational, according...