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...Kind of Law. Many hoped, with Prosecutor Jackson, that Nürnberg was an important beginning, and that around this precedent real international law would crystallize. But there was a very real danger that the Nürnberg trials would turn into chaotic farce, set international law back by decades. That danger was inherent in one school of thinking. No less an authority than U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark had publicly hoped that the Nürnberg court "will deal out what we in Texas call 'Law west of the Pecos'-fast justice, particularly fast...
...Leninism, is actually the application of the principles of Leninism to an entirely new situation. . . . The old Soviet plan may be said to have embraced concepts of an extensive revolution, or rather of a series of revolutions: extensive because it was expected that all over the globe irregular, chaotic explosions would occur. . . . What Stalin has done with the old concept has not been to abolish the revolutionary program: rather he has transformed the idea of an extensive revolution into one of an intensive revolution. Of course, the old system of capitalist economy and capitalist policy, he said, is everywhere ripe...
...Chinese Consul Kiang Yi-seng and the Museum's Director, Dr. Richard E. Fuller, believe it to be because of the references to Hsien Feng deciphered from its characters), chances are that it came to the U.S. some time after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. During that chaotic period hoodlums and allied soldiers had ample opportunity to plunder the fabulous riches of Tzu Hsi's Imperial Palaces at Peking...
Essentially the Yale plan is a compromise between various elements. In the words of its authors, the plan "attempts to strike a reasonable balance between these elements, bringing order to a situation which has been in danger of becoming chaotic." The program as such is negative in purpose, a corrective rather than an application of a new educational philosophy...
...will not be able to keep Europe democratic or free if we and the British pull out. Europe this summer, and for a long time to come, will be too wartorn, too weak, too submissive, too morally bankrupt and too chaotic to stand on its own feet. Democracy must be encouraged and preserved-if necessary against a background of power. Or are we ready to despair and to give Europe over to the Titos...