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The Cry and the Covenant, by Morton Thompson. The tragic life of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, discoverer of the cause of childbed fever, as told in a sometimes awkward, always sincere novelized version (TIME, Nov. 14).
In framing the Covenant, the Commission of Human Rights encountered the problem of the difference between Napoleonic law from which the laws of many Latin countries are derived, and British Common Law, which is the basis of the English and American systems, Mrs. Roosevelt said.
"One of the French delegates spoke of individual rights and used the term 'personnalite juridique.' I interpreted that as juridical personality, and immediately the American lawyers said we could not use that term in the covenant since it had never been used in American courts before."
The Soviet Union delegate opposed the idea of a covenant guaranteeing the human rights described in the Declaration because they believed that enforcement of rights was purely a state matter, Mrs. Roosevelt said. They had previously abstained from approval of the Declaration because it said that "all people should be...
In a final appeal for the people to act on the Covenant, Mrs. Roosevelt said that "this may be one of the ways that we learn to live together in the world . . . so the citizens should let their representatives know what they think should be done. . . . The citizens take not...