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Last week the State Department peremptorily called a halt. It ruled that the visas of 17 Iron Curtainers were no longer valid, ordered the men to leave the country as soon as possible. Before they left, the visitors got a quick look around, and did a little shopping. One night Composer Shostakovich slipped quietly into a balcony seat at a Manhattan concert to hear the forbidden "formalist" music of Hungary's late Bela Bartok...
...friend in the sky," accurately described the consequences which the ascendance of science and the decline of philosophy had had in the world. More & more people, said Stace, have come to believe that morality is merely relative, with one man's view of right & wrong considered as valid as another's. The consequent lack of agreement on moral standards has created impossible conditions for society. Stace's own, wooly-minded attempt at a solution: a new kind of morality found in the "psychological laws" of human behavior...
...charge that the Pact is another dart thrown into Russia's side which may elicit a similar diplomatic maneuver behind the Iron Curtain is unfortunately valid. But the value of the Pact in removing small nations' fears for survival among powerful neighbors compensates for this difficulty...
...unjustified attacks on the Conference--picketing by veterans' groups, State Department refusal of visas to many delegates, and generally hostile press coverage--will necessarily obscure any valid reasons that Schlesinger may have had for opposing the meetings, and will certainly lump him with these other forces in the public mind. It is his mistake to have made his objections under the aegis of such a false front as the Americans for Intellectual Freedom. This group, hastily and temporarily organized, scheduled its "counter-rally" on the same evening as the climax of the Conference--an obvious and ineffective way of hitting...
...this case, the objection voiced in the House of Lords over what will happen to the future generation is valid. Sax stated. It would pose a dangerous problem to any nation. Harmful recessive traits would begin to appear in the succeeding generations, creating a general decline in the strength of the nation...