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...Protestants is at all likely to come about through decisions of the council. But, he writes, "if Catholics carry out Catholic reform and Protestants carry out Protestant reform, both according to the Gospel image, then, because the Gospel of Christ is but one, reunion need not remain a Utopian dream. Reunion will then be neither a Protestant return nor a Catholic capitulation but a brotherly approach from both sides, with neither consciously calculating, on the other's behalf, which of them has more steps to take; an approach penetrated with love, and wholly determined by truth...
...Premier Chou En-lai's state of the nation speech to the Congress. Chou announced that China's economy had "begun to take a turn for the better." but this tepid claim was not supported by statistics of any kind, much less by the grandiose and Utopian figures that were trumpeted to the world in 1960. Chou blamed China's food shortage on "serious natural calamities," and dwelt far more on overcoming present difficulties than on striving for future victories...
...plan will obviously remain wildly Utopian as long as the U.N. and the world remain divided. Senator Barry Goldwater expressed misgivings: "I suggest that the American people would rise up in indignant protest if we were to open our defense installations to inspection by United Nations teams, and eventually turn over our security to a U.N. peace force...
...even Huxley seems to realize, not so much that human perfection is unobtainable, but that it is not interesting. For Utopias are about nowhere and novels are about somewhere; therefore, a Utopian novel is a contradiction in terms...
...Utopian Hopes. Looking far ahead are scientists who think of "nonphysical" techniques. This is what Lewis C. Bohn, an arms-control specialist, calls "knowledge detection." Says Bohn: "Instead of focusing on the violation itself as a secret physical phenomenon, one can focus on knowledge concerning it, as a mental phenomenon in the heads of human beings." He suggests that an international arms control body might be given access to, say, 1,000 citizens of each country- a cross section of high-ranking people including industrialists, scientists, bankers, even Cabinet ministers, who would be regularly quizzed with...