Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Endorsed (but not ratified) the Genocide Convention. Setting out to make mass murder an international crime (and it was a crime, whatever the U.N. might say or not say), a U.N. commission ended up with a complex document defining "genocide" to include "causing . . . mental harm" to members of "a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." Under such a far-afield provision, expressions of honest opinion might become crimes...
...Aviv court decision that perpetrators of the Deir Yassin massacre of women and children should receive government pensions is a severe blow to Israeli prestige. Morally, the action was a greater crime than the original massacre, because it came in a period of relative peace, without the pressure of war hysteria or the heat of battle. The court has condemned itself [yet] no people on earth have a longer history of regard for human rights...
...wife, but Christie stole the priest's car and went to jail again. After that the Christies went to live at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, a shabby London district. In World War II, Christie joined the Police War Reserve and earned two commendations for "efficient detection in crime.'' He took up photography, kept scores of pictures of himself, and obscene shots of pretty girls. He was known as a "polite little...
...crime had ideological roots. Children of East European immigrants who settled in Manhattan's lower East Side, both Julius Rosenberg and his future wife Ethel Greenglass took to Communism in their adolescent years. In so doing, they rejected the Jewish faith of their parents (a sore blow to Julius' father, a garment worker who yearned for his son to be a rabbi). So ardent was 19-year-old Ethel's devotion to the cause that she began indoctrinating her 13-year-old brother David. Then she found a comrade and a beau in Julius, two years...
...unifi cation of Korea by force against North Korea after [resisting] North Korea's attempt to unify Korea by force against South Korea." A fortnight ago, President Eisenhower used a somewhat similar argument to dissuade Syngman Rhee from going it alone. Said the President: "It was indeed a crime that [North Korea] invoked violence to unite Korea. But I urge that your country not embark upon a similar course...