Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many players were bumped up in the Brown fracas, but at this point Art Valpey is only willing to commit himself on the status of two men: John White and Dan Cass join Charlie Walsh as definitely ineligible to face the Elis. The doctors will release word on the other doubtfuls tomorrow...
...charge against Yamashita was that he had "unlawfully disregarded and failed to discharge his duty as commander to control the operations of the members of his command, permitting them to commit brutal atrocities . . . thereby violated the Laws of War." This charge, described by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge as "vagueness if not vacuity," laid down a new principle-that a commander is a criminal if his men violate the Laws of War, whether he ordered the violations or even knew of them...
...eleven Communists had been indicted and found guilty under the Smith Act. The law, passed by Congress in 1940, and never finally tested by the U.S. Supreme Court, made it a crime to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, or to conspire to commit such acts. There was no question of an overt act of violence; no revolution had actually been attempted. Had the activities of the eleven then constituted for the U.S. what Justice Holmes once characterized as "clear and present danger"? The defendants had merely plotted and planned, taught and preached. No matter...
...against aligning India with the U.S. in a concerted effort to contain the only aggressor in sight. Americans who looked upon U.S. policy as a bulwark against the Communist threat to freedom would find little satisfaction in some other Nehru remarks of the week: "We have no intention to commit ourselves to anybody at any time . . . How can peace be preserved? Not by surrendering to aggression, not by compromising with evil or injustice, but also not by talking and preparing...
...Evidently you folks are not satisfied with the countless crimes that have been laid at my door; but you are now egging me on to commit the most serious of all crimes-murder-of the English language. That is one charge to which I would have no defense-so my barrister advises...