Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side of the controversy is reflected in the answer of a Briggs Hall resident: "Radcliffe has a certain prestige to uphold. If people are going to criticize they should do it through the Administration, not publicly for everyone...
Schlesinger, who is also National Vice-Chairman of ADA, will uphold ADA's politics; Cherington will criticize them. Much of the discussion will probably revolve around ADA's lobbying activities...
...Norman M. Hinerfeld '51, Jay R. Nussbaum '52, and Henry Steiner '51 will argue the negative of the topic: "Resolved, that the non-communist countries should form a new international organization." Meanwhile, William C. Becker '51, Richard W. Hulbert '51, and Richard S. Stewart '51 will uphold the affirmative of this topic in a debate held simultaneously at New Haven...
Without exception, Communist countries uphold the principle laid down by Satirist George Orwell in the Animal Farm: all are created equal, but some are more equal than others. This means in practice that Communist Party members get more and better food, housing, clothing and recreation than the mass of the people, who live in darkness because they know not Marx. Anyone who suggests that Communists live like ordinary people is guilty of a heresy called egalitarianism, upon which the great Lenin himself pronounced anathema...
Last year, the Flying Cloud and the Flying Arrow (another Isbrandtsen ship) were fired on and damaged while running the Nationalist blockade of Communist China (see cut). Because the U.S. did not recognize the blockade, Isbrandtsen demanded, in full-page ads in New York newspapers, that the State Department uphold freedom of the seas and give him protection by U.S. warships. Earlier, Isbrandtsen ships had been seized in the East Indies by the Dutch (over export license technicalities) and in the Mediterranean by the Egyptians (on suspicion of carrying war goods to Israel). The Dutch have since made a settlement...