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...Court"). The jurists working on a basic statute in Washington left some of the most important questions up to San Francisco-how to choose the judges, whether they will have compulsory jurisdiction in some types of cases, whether and to what extent the court's decision and precedents bind the Security Council...
Colombia's Lleras introduced the week's hottest resolution. Backed in principle by the U.S., it would bind all the signers to defend the boundaries and political independence of any American republic attacked from any quarter, within or without the Western Hemisphere. Tacit object: to create a combination in case Argentina should turn aggressor against Chile...
...mull over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair. After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that Negroes led so passional an existence! . . . Whenever I thought of the essential bleakness of black life in America, I knew...
U.M.W. v. New Deal. John L. poured. Three days later he appeared before the convention with a 1,600-word resolution: 1,000 words denouncing the New Deal, 200 praising Governor Thomas E. Dewey. The New Deal, said the resolution, was the first administration "to abolish collective bargaining ... to bind men to their jobs like indentured servants." It passed the "Smith-Connally-Harness Slave...
What children most of the critics of Russia's policies were! As if Russia needed to set up Communist governments all over Europe. Stupid! First of all Russia needed peace-to bind up its wounds, to organize its resources into an impregnable, unconquerable socialist state. First of all Russia needed freedom from the fear of invasion, a cordon sanitaire, in reverse, on its western, frontiers. Henceforth, from the Arctic Ocean to the Adriatic Sea, there must be a chain of governments friendly to Russia...