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...most valuable principles, its distribution of authority and its balance of power. Why are Bricker & Company so anxious to junk the wisdom of those upon whose shades they so frequently call? They are afraid, apparently, that mistakes will be made, that some future President, Senate, House, and electorate will depart from the political ideas which they deem immutable. Aside from the arrogance of this stand, its rationale, that paralysis is better than risk of error, is appalling. It reflects the same mistrust of power that today makes France the picture of chaos. Even granting that the view of human nature...
...Labor's attack was a pale, impassioned Bevanite named Archibald Fenner Brockway, son of an African missionary. Staring across the House at Lyttelton, he invoked Oliver Cromwell's terrible injunction to the Long Parliament: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" Though the House was dissatisfied with Lyttelton, these strong words went...
While officers may sometimes need books for a longer period then students, a year is too long to let Widener's charges languish on some official's shelf. Besides keeping books from circulation for a long period, an office may depart on a leave of absence and take his little collection with...
...night, most of the people were just going to bed in the Jordanian village of Kibya, 20 miles northwest' of Jerusalem, and a mile and a half beyond the Israeli frontier. A light still burned in the village coffeehouse, where a few late gossipers were preparing to depart; on this quiet night, as usual, everyone put his trust in the U.N. "truce" and 30 skimpily armed Jordanian national guardsmen. Suddenly, Israeli artillery, previously zeroed onto target, opened up, and a 600-man battalion of uniformed Israeli regulars swept across the border to encircle the village. For the next...
Last week the public got its first look at Peron and El Galleguito together. It was a spectacle to remember. Ready to depart on a trip to a provincial capital to speak at a political rally, Perón stood at the train window waving to the crowd and holding up his pet toy poodle, Tambor. El Galleguito jealously tried to pull the dog from the President's arms. Flustered, the President handed the dog to the boy, who dumped it to the floor and shoved up to the window, mugging furiously. Perón moved the boy back...