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...Toronto, the Workers' Educational Association of Canada (which sponsors night classes for workers) planned to build a house on a lot it owned on O'Connor Drive, then to raffle it off for profit. Then in the deed to the lot it discovered an ominous clause: ". . . not to be sold to Jews or persons of objectionable nationality." The Association went to court to have the clause annulled...
...Supreme Court, a canny Scot Justice named Keiller MacKay gave a decision that all members of the clan Mackay could cheer. He had found his legal assignment harder than it looked: nowhere in British or Canadian law had he been able to find any precedent for knocking out the deed's clause. But he had been able to marshal a shattering array of recent world opinion. As evidence of what most of the world thinks about such things, Justice MacKay cited...
That seemed to be precedent enough. The discriminatory clause in the Association's deed, said Justice MacKay, was "offensive to the public policy. It appears to me to be a moral duty to ... repel [such provisions] as fissiparous tendencies which would imperil national unity." His ruling: the discriminatory clause and all others like it (involving millions of dollars' worth of property in Ontario) were henceforth void...
...With his Indian helpers he set off in the direction of the howls. On the ground they found the disemboweled body of the Monsignor's favorite dog. Its eyes had been plucked; its belly had been ripped. Regretfully, the priest concluded that his Kirika charges had done the deed...
...hours-after Tibbets had been decorated for his deed-Hiroshima was covered with a giant, mushrooming cloud of smoke and dust. When reconnaissance photographs were at last obtained, they showed 4.1 square miles-60% of the city's built-up area-destroyed by fire and blast. There was no crater in which the blast effect would have been largely wasted; the bomb had exploded well above ground. How many tens of thousands of Hiroshima's people had perished was not yet and might never be known...