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Marshall knows that he and the South ern federal judges he respects are checked by the same steely framework of the Anglo-American legal tradition and, especially, the U.S. Constitution. He says: "The difference between the Constitution and the law is something a lot of people don't seem to appreciate. The law can fluctuate because of the changing whims of the people and their legislators. But the whole purpose of the Constitution is to serve as an instrument which cannot be changed overnight, which does not change when mores and customs change...
...confidence. Chancellor Butler has kept the Welfare State but has adjusted his budgets to restore incentives to private enterprise. Foreign Secretary Macmillan (whose son and son-in-law were elected along with him to Parliament) is a wartime friend of Eisenhower's, and a firm believer in the Anglo-American partnership. The Tories have problems ahead -including, two days after the election, a nationwide railway strike-but they also have at last a comfortable majority and a prospering, confident nation...
...learn from Chairman Mao's statement on party doctrine." At a conference of mathematicians, one topic was "How to Realize Patriotism Through Education in Mathematics." At another meeting, the president of the Society of Chemistry, Tseng Chao-lun, confessed his organization's past errors in adopting "Anglo-American" laboratory methods, called for a "patriotic" reorientation...
Favors & Flattery. Right at the start of the polemical sham battle over Poland Roosevelt exposed the poverty of the Anglo-American effort. There were two related avenues for a strong U.S. approach: the high principles of self-determination for even the smallest state, and the heavy pressure of such practical measures as Russia's stake in the future of West Germany. Instead, Roosevelt and (sometimes) Churchill couched their main plea to Stalin in terms of petty politicians asking favors. At that level Stalin inevitably bested them...
Britain's anti-American NEW STATES MAN AND NATION, which is ever alert for alternatives to Anglo-American unity...