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...Argentina, as in some other Latin American countries, there are no trials in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the term. The judge sends his secretaries to take testimony from the defense and prosecution, makes his decision-in writing- after studying the written depositions...
...action in foreign affairs to draw his country closer to the U.S., integrating Canadian and U.S. defense systems and their wartime economies. Through all the changes in Canada's foreign relations and in the strain of World War II, he contrived to keep the divergent French-speaking and Anglo-Saxon parts of Canada together behind him. Of all his achievements, King rated this preservation of the country's unity as the greatest...
...French Communists have recently been playing up Joan of Arc as a nationalist symbol of resistance to Anglo-Saxon (U.S.) influence in France. On Joan of Arc Day last May, Communist factory girls and housewives laid a wreath at the foot of Joan's statue in Paris...
...Anglo-Saxon & Macaroni. Scholarship aside, and simply as a sheer editorial enterprise, the Jefferson Papers deserved the applause. Of its kind, nothing so massive has ever been attempted in the U.S. The 39-volume bicentennial edition of George Washington's papers runs to only one-third the number of words and documents, Yale's great, still incomplete 50-volume Horace Walpole Correspondence to about one-fourth the documents...
...written by Jefferson, but 25,000 or more that were written to him by others. To be included: practically every recoverable scrap Jefferson ever wrote, from his state papers and his travel notes down to his jottings and essays on the scores of subjects which interested him, from the Anglo-Saxon language to recipes for macaroni and ice cream. Already, Editor Boyd has over 50,000 items on tap from more than 425 sources, and more are trickling in all the time...