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For two years-all the way from Lake Success to Geneva and back again-the United Nations had been arguing about an international covenant for freedom of the press. Last week, when the General Assembly finally approved the world's first treaty on the subject, it hardly seemed worth...
Many citizens felt that the United Nations Charter was no better than the old Geneva League covenant. They gloomily foresaw what has since come to pass--the virtual asphyxiation of the U.N. Early in 1947, most of the bumper crop of post San Francisco "unite-or-die" groups got together...
Yet a streak pf humility remains. He showed it recently when he and Madame Chiang, with sons Ching-kuo and Wei-kuo, went over to the Christian church which the Gimo had presented to Nanking. No pastor was present. The Gimo himself preached a little sermon, taking his text from...
But the nation also had an issue. What was the value of a labor covenant which could be rejected the minute it did not suit labor? In the case of the Railway Labor Act, the safety and welfare of the nation was involved. All the misters of the brotherhoods had...
Then the Shelleys discovered that their house was covered by a restrictive real-estate covenant which a "neighborhood improvement association" had drawn up in 1911. It prohibited any owner from selling it to a Negro.