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Three Conjectures: Soviet law (like most Western law) held that confession, unless supported by corroborative evidence, is insufficient for conviction. Vishinsky, a sharp lawyer, produced a huge law study, ostensibly aimed at "strengthening Soviet legality," actually a justification of his method of basing cases on confessions alone. The book won...
Eighteen months ago Andrei Vishinsky, the man who knew the answer to all these conjectures, died in the New York headquarters of the Soviet U.N. delegation. Since then Stalin's successors have hinted that the military trials of 1937 that wiped out the whole top layer of the Red...
This new interpretation of a "regional defense area" is, for the Administration, a much-delayed step in the right direction. It indicates a recognition that armaments are not the primary defense against Communism. The redefinition is a frank if belated acknowledgement that NATO can never hope to attain its original...
Said the majority opinion, written by Justice Tom Clark: "At the outset we must condemn the practice of imputing a sinister meaning to the exercise of a person's constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment . . . The privilege against self-incrimination would be reduced to a hollow mockery if its...
In 1915 he got his Ph.D., and a year later was called to Manhattan. There he performed a bewildering array of duties as pastor and prior of St. Catherine of Siena Church, national director of the Holy Name Society, editor of the Holy Name Journal, national director of the Third...