Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promised a voyage to parts of the great outside world. He is shown on dazzling posters the life that may be his when he is off duty. Looting is not mentioned, as are not drill, fatigues, button-cleaning, etc. In most armies, in fact, looting is a crime...
...Chinese who, as recent events have shown, are not slow to exchange their medieval methods of warfare for the modern system devised in the Occident, have accordingly made looting a crime. This is, of course, only a half-truth, because in China there is no National Army, but an enormous number of private armies, each governed by a different discipline...
...said body of international law shall declare war a crime and no longer recognize, in any way or at any time, war as a legitimate institution for the settlement of international disputes. In other words, if war comes, it must be without the shield or sanction of law, but in violation of it as a piracy, or slavery, or peonage or murder...
...Madrid, the Public Prosecutor presented to the President of the Supreme Tribunal an indictment against Ibanez for publication and distribution of pamphlets, constituting inter alia, the crime of lèse-majesté*. The author was then summoned to appear within 15 days before a military judge in Madrid, to give testimony in his defense. Somewhere in France, somebody informed Ibanez of the summons. Roared he in hearty laughter: "I would just as soon take refuge on a cannibal island or throw myself into waters inhabited by crocodiles or famished sharks as to confide myself to the government of bandits...
...should be made a crime for a single individual to defraud or attempt to defraud the Government?it is now a crime to conspire to defraud the Government...