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...condition of marriage one of the partners is required to sign a declaration that the children born of the marriage will be brought up in the practice of a religious system in which he or she doesn't believe . . . We strongly deprecate such mixed marriages, and we assert that in no circumstances should an Anglican give any undertaking as a condition of marriage that the children should be brought up in the practice of another communion...
Leaders of the Soviet legal profession assert that their law is "essentially different from all types of law known for history." To determine whether or not Soviet law is of a new type and if no, where the novelty lies is an difficult task because of the relative youth of the Russian legal system, Professor Berman pointed...
...polite, though always an officer and a gentleman, in paying his respects to Churchill. In conferences before the European invasion, Churchill repeatedly said: "General, if by the coming winter you have established yourself ... on the Continent, and have . . . freed beautiful Paris from the hands of the enemy, I will assert the victory to be the greatest of modern times." Long before that winter was over, Ike's armies had done much more: they were poised on the frontiers of Germany...
...pattern of Nieman Fellowships is still flexible. In ten years the Foundation has developed a workable pattern for operation; but Louis Lyons would be the first to assert that lack of rigid pattern is one of the biggest advantages for the vacationing newsmen...
...maintain with Henry Wallace that the Draft is only one more step in the drive toward war in the part of the bankers and general who control our government's policy. We further assert that Mr. Conant's universal military training program lends them considerable encouragement from noted civilian sources to continue their war program. Harvard Committee for Wallace