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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Treaty with the Republic of Korea. Chief provision: each nation agrees to help the other fend off an external aggression, but only "in accordance with its constitutional processes." The U.S. is not obliged under the treaty t01) support an independent South Korean military liberation of North Korea, 2) defend South Korea against internal subversion, or 3) keep troops in South Korea, though the right to do so is assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Korean Treaty | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Earlier this week, a New York State legislative committee heard a plan designed to curb misuses of the investigator power. Offered by the state bar association, the code establishes rigid procedural rules for investigating committees, assuring witnesses a chance to defend themselves from a one way stream of accusations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Curbs | 2/6/1954 | See Source »

Moral Victory. In Pontiac, Mich., when Defendant Robert Mott showed up to fight a damage suit without a lawyer, Judge George B. Hartrick decided to defend him, presented his argument, then ruled that his client had lost the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...Women's World Figure Skating Champion, Tenley leaves for Oslo next month to defend her title. She'll also give exhibitions in Copenhagon, Switzerland, and Paris before she returns for the Nationals in Los Angeles in late March...

Author: By Joanna M. Shaw, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...grounds, he may not have accomplished very much. We have tried to evaluate the testimony on both its personal courage and practical consequences. Conscience does not exist in a vacuum, and, at times, an individual's noblest acts are, in the end, harmful to the principles he wants to defend. This second editorial is an attempt to further clarify a complicated distinction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wendell Furry | 1/22/1954 | See Source »

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