Word: coded
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Dilly said it best: "Nothing is impossible." That conviction shaped the lives of the four Knox brothers. For Dilwyn, the second-born son, it meant breaking the vital German flag code in World War I and finding a crucial key to the Germans' baffling Enigma machine in World War II. For Ronald, youngest and most celebrated of the four, it meant translating a Roman Catholic English Bible-Old and New Testaments-from the Latin Vulgate. For Eldest Brother Edmund it meant a painstaking ascension to the Fleet Street pantheon as editor of Punch. Wilfred, the third-born son, chose...
...Multer goes on to attack as "particularly offensive" the fact, as he puts it, that "reporters could, under certain circumstances, be jailed for refusing to reveal sources." If he can find a new clause in the code that says that, he wins a prize. For the bill simply leaves untouched the Supreme Court's decision that reporters are not immune from the general obligation on citizens to testify about crimes they have witnessed. That decision may be wise or unwise; but the subject is so complicated that former Senator Sam Ervm, setting out to change it by statute, found himself...
Andrew Multer's article on S.1437 is a fair example of the misrepresentation and scare tactics used against the proposed Federal Criminal Code reform...
...final example of Mr. Multer criticizing the proposed code for what it does not do: "Current conspiracy laws, perhaps the most easily abused sections in the Criminal Code, are left untouched. S.1437 is plagued with such potential disasters." Yes, and the bill does not make other changes that he and I and other liberals would like. But it makes some reforms long desired by liberals, such as repeal of the Smith Act, and as far as I know it includes no retrogressive changes in existing...
...short, the proposed code is a significant improvement on existing Federal criminal law but does not include all the improvements that some of us would like. The issue, therefore, is whether to oppose it now in the hope that a more liberal version will be produced. The answer depends on whether one thinks public opinion is moving in a more or less liberal direction on issues of criminal law. To me, the signs of growing illiberalism are plain, so I think we should settle for the improvements in the draft code as the best imaginable for the indefinite future. Others...