Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...dozen times in the last three months, representatives of the U.S., Britain, Canada, France and China met with the Russians behind closed doors at Lake Success; they were having another try at reaching agreement on international atomic control...
...stood firmly by its plan for international control, which last year was approved by a vast majority of U.N.'s General Assembly, the six Red-bloc nations dissenting. The plan provides for 1) a cooperative international agency to own and control all atomic energy, including production for peaceful use; 2) inspection by representatives of the control commission, who must have "unimpeded rights of ingress, egress and access . . . into, from and within the territories of any participating nation"; 3) majority rule in the control commission, without a veto...
...Russian counterproposal also calls for international control and inspection, but it contains a number of sharp little gimmicks: 1) atomic energy research and production facilities for "peaceful purposes" would be owned by individual nations; 2) inspection would be only "periodic," confined to plants, mines, etc. that have been declared officially by the government which controls them; 3) the international body would merely make recommendations to the Security Council on how to deal with offenders, thus subjecting enforcement to the veto...
...Tigers earned the impractical distinction of outplaying the varsity most of the way. Usually a run-and-kick squad, Princeton featured a good passing game in every period except the third, when the Crimson held control. At all other times, however, Princeton was taking most of the shots, several of them just missing the goal...