Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long arm of the law proved too long for Law Professor James A. Casner when he appeared at the Newton Court House to defend a graduate student arraigned for driving offenses...
World Tour. So ran the arguments for western Europe as the front where the U.S. and its allies should concentrate. But could the U.S. do it? The sober fact was that the U.S. had already committed its strength to more fronts than it could now effectively defend, much less use for simultaneous offensives...
...proposes to defend Australia for two reasons: 1) to keep open at least the southern half of the Indian Ocean and its approaches from the South Atlantic (see map); 2) to base a counteroffensive against the Indies, Malaya and Japan itself. The first reason is compelling. But the real value of southern Australia's distant ports and cities for counterassault is open to argument...
Last week Japan's Premier Hideki Tojo gave the best possible indication that the Japs would rather leave Australia alone. Said he in Tokyo: "The Australians themselves must be fully aware of the fact that it is utterly impossible for Australia . . . to defend herself against the might of our invincible forces." Therefore, said General Tojo, let the Australians be sensible and perceive that Japan is their best friend...
Fully as fierce were Socialist Blum's answers to charges that he sold out France to sit-down strikers and Communist intriguers. He had dealt with Communists, he said, because it was "impossible to defend republican ideals by excluding a large mass of the people." With a daring that made the courtroom gasp, he spoke of a Communist, recently a saboteur, "who often bitterly attacked...