Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Does debate weaken democracy? On the contrary, argues Author Labin, the rigor of the dogmatic one-opinion police state leads only to rigor mortis: "To believe that music must bring forth Leninistic harmonies, that physics must be de-Semiticized . . . non-Aryans sterilized, the kulaks exterminated: to believe all this, even unanimously-above all unanimously-must lead a people to catastrophe . . . Hamlet is frequently cited as an example of the tragedy caused by thought not followed by action, but, as Bertrand Russell judiciously observes, the totalitarians ought rather to meditate upon the fate of Othello, on the disasters provoked by action...
...Bricker Amendment, should clearly show the Republicans how unreal their doubts are. The Republicans say they want experience in practical politics. But "practical politics" involves more than biennial canvassing, and what experience could be more practical than actual political debating? The Republicans say they do not want to weaken their organization. What better way to strengthen their organization than to hold debates and caucuses within their club before arriving at a public position? The Republicans say they do not want to be forced to choose sides, and even here their fears are groundless. For what is to prevent the Republicans...
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles correctly foresaw that the Communists would get short-term, tactical advantages from last summer's Parley at the Summit. The resumption of Big Four contacts and the easing of tensions, the Secretary reasoned, would somewhat weaken the will of the Western democracies to take the hard decisions needed to maintain a posture of strength; the democracies, moreover, would feel freer to indulge their petty quarrels of long standing. Such a sequence has already followed, amid the looping longings of "The Spirit of Geneva...
...Geneva, Dulles paused in Rome for talks with the leaders of Italy, who had recently been feeling neglected amid the comings and goings of the Big Four. He journeyed on to Paris for a meeting of the NATO Council. Dulles found the West Germans perturbed that the British might weaken the Western line, or bend it, by putting up some kind of "Eden Plan" that might tend to freeze the division of Germany; the British, however, were reassuring. Out of these meetings, Dulles confirmed the support of the Europeans upon the three formal questions of the agenda...
...Councilor Marcus Morton (Yale '16), and Charles C. Pyne, assistant to the Administrative Vice-President of the University Edward R. Reynolds, look upon alternate side, alternate night parking as a possible step toward a realistic answer. Pyne affirmed that the present ordinance, because it is occasionally violated, tends to weaken respect for other traffic regulations. Alternate side parking, Foley feels, would also solve the cleaning and snow removal obstacles...