Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your issue of Dec. 16, in a very able analysis of the difficulties of the British Empire (page 30), your reporter states: "British justice, tramp steamers and Scotch whiskey loosely bind a diverse association of peoples...
British justice, tramp steamers and Scotch whiskey loosely bind a diverse association of peoples. The world, struggling nervously with the problems of how to place in peaceable association even more diverse groups, finds the British Empire an embarrassment and an inspiration. Meanwhile, the Empire, a hodgepodge of real estate scattered all over the globe (see map), is changing more rapidly than ever in its confused history. Most of the changes turn around the sincere efforts of the British Government to satisfy (without exchanging anarchy for stability) colonial peoples' hopes of self-government...
...General words in a statute do not include nor bind the Government by whose authority the statute was enacted, where its sovereignty, rights, prerogatives or interests are involved...
...bespeak a healthy fear, the fear that comes from a frank facing of the worst that is in the present and a fair appraisal of the consequences to which it could bind the future. The fear which was unashamedly felt by men now at Harvard when they faced visible and invisible death on ships, in planes and in foxholes; the fear that they went out, grimly and with little joy, to meet and master...
...within the structure of the Council, it is because the whole system has never been subjected to the test of open inspection and referendum. And until it has, the Council exists in a vacuum, operating as a debate society which has drawn up a pretty set of laws which bind no one beyond the narrow confines of its own membership...