When wilt Thou save the people?
O God of mercy, when?
The people, Lord, the people, Not thrones and crowns, but men!
God save the people; Thine they are, Thy children, as Thy angels fair; From vice, oppression, and despair, God save the people!
Mexico's eloquent former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla prefaced the Cleveland Council on World Affairs' 21st Annual Institute with the above verse, from (he said) a 19th Century English hymn.-
Through three days of meetings last week the Institute, of which TIME was a cosponsor, did not depart far from Padilla's keynote. The 23...
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