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...slow mass-movement of Britain's lords temporal and spiritual to one or the other side of their august chamber was completed, the not-contents outnumbered their opponents by 238 to 95. By thus refusing to approve a House of Commons bill to abolish capital punishment (TIME, Feb. 27), the House of Lords last week flung the first direct challenge in the face of Britain's elected representatives since 1949-when the bill in question was one designed to shear the lords themselves of a large portion of their legislative power...
Should Canada abolish the death penalty for murder, treason and piracy? A special committee of the House of Commons and Senate has been studying the question for the past two years, listening to a parade of witnesses that included Canada's official hangman, U.S. and British penologists, physicians, psychiatrists, chemists, lawyers, policemen and assorted humanitarians. Last week the committee made its final report to Parliament. Its net: capital punishment should be kept. Only change recommended: condemned criminals should be executed by electrocution or gas instead of hanging...
...pronouncement of that principle, Webster recorded, was greeted with 'one general glow of exultation.' That principle has now been extended . . . Within the last ten years the U.S., always acting in a bipartisan manner, has made such treaties with 42 countries of America, Europe and Asia. These treaties abolish, as between the parties, the principle of neutrality...
Negroes participated effectively in the redefinition of democracy after the Civil War. One reason why slaveholders had opposed emancipation was the fact that they had not formulated a plan for the place of freedmen in American society. During Reconstruction, Negro members of state conventions and legislatures supported measures to abolish the post-Civil War Black Codes by which the all-white legislatures had attempted to keep the freedmen as nearly as possible in their former servile status...
...countless G.I.s. Tropic of Cancer went off like a time bomb in the literary world of 1934. A generation wearied of polite fiction was offered great gobs of something called Life. Just as history seemed to be jostling Europe to a new war, the author of Tropic offered to abolish history. The book displayed life as a perpetual riot of gabble and rut in which Narrator Miller kept a bouncer's hard eye for anyone likely to break up the party. Its explosion was timely, but the shock wave passed quickly. Now Miller seems as drably dated...