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Quoting Lord Bryce. he said: "The law of nature represented to the Romans that which is conformable to reason, to the best side of human nature, to an elevated morality, to practical good sense, to general convenience. It is simple and rational, as opposed to that which is artificial or arbitrary. It is universal, as opposed to that which is local or national. It is superior to all other law because it belongs to mankind as mankind, and is the expression of the purpose of the Deity or of the highest reason...
...Welch's received a powerful endorsement from Woodrow Wilson's Administration, when Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan served grape juice at a state dinner in honor of retiring British Ambassador James Bryce. Next year, when Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels caused a national furor by outlawing hard liquor on naval ships and installations, outraged editorial writers and cartoonists did Welch's the favor of dubbing the U.S. fleet "the grape-juice Navy...
...hook on the pending Powell amendment (which would bar segregated school districts from funds under the $1.6 billion school construction bill), eight Democratic Representatives wrote President Eisenhower requesting his promise that the Administration would not allocate funds to districts that refuse to desegregate. White House Administrative Assistant Bryce Harlow last week replied that the President has no plans for issuing any such statement of intentions...
...General (ret.) Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, 59. Persons spent 13 years as an Army liaison man on Capitol Hill, part of that time as Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower's representative with Congress. Under Persons, as liaison men with Congress, are Administrative Assistants I. Jack Martin, 47, and Bryce Harlow, 39. Martin, onetime administrative assistant to Senator Robert A. Taft, is especially liked and respected on the Hill...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:35 a.m., CBS). A discussion of James Bryce's The American Commonwealth...