Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French justice, based on the Napoleonic Code, has long been viewed with cynicism by its friends and alarm by disciples of Anglo-Saxon procedures. "The Code exists to protect society from the criminal, not to protect the criminal from judicial error," explains one French expert. "We run our courts to convict the guilty, not to acquit the innocent." Last week the case of a Nantes stevedore, only the most recent of a series of setbacks of justice, touched off a storm of indignation...
Despite the reported war-like nature of the new Soviet government, Marshall D. Shulman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, last night cautioned the West against developing "an atmosphere of alarm...
Like most of the professors contacted yesterday, Malia echoed the belief that the change will lead to a "tougher line" in Soviet foreign policy. "This switch in foreign policy might well arise from deep alarm at the prospect of German rearmament and American determination to keep Formose," he said...
...emphasized that all present analyses of the Russian situation are purely speculative, and should not be interpreted rashly. "It is important for us not to develop an atmosphere of alarm in interpreting events whose meanings are far from clear at the moment...
...chief protectionist arguments is that tariffs are needed to safeguard vital defense industries. Said Percy: "Our industry points with alarm to the fact that because of foreign competition there are perhaps no more than 2,000 optical workers in the U.S. This may be true; but the industry fails to mention the fact that in the process of learning the optical grinding business, we have radically changed and improved the methods used in Germany and other countries for hundreds of years. As a result, the present unit productivity of our 2,000 workers is probably greater than the productivity...