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...over all nations (3) a strong international police force armed with modern weapons and capable of enforcing international law anywhere on earth. Once something like this is achieved, not just a reduction, but complete disarmament on every national level, can follow. It is unreasonable to expect a man to discard his weapons until he has some other means for protecting his rights. To establish a basis for the operation of international law is indeed a difficult job. There are many road-blocks to be removed--the right of self-determination (in cases of revolution) to be accepted by the Communist...
...take revenge. He used to order me to stand naked most of the night, and beat me." The House of Obedience was the most important but not the only feminist objection to Egyptian customs. In the country districts. Moslem men often married and divorced as Western husbands buy and discard suits. There are more than 57,000 divorces annually. The deserted wife and her children were usually denied everything, and most country women, because of ignorance, did little except mourn their fate...
...King George V himself felt obliged to discard all such "German Degrees, Styles, Dignities, Titles, Honours and Appellations to Us" as the Dukes and Duchesses of Saxony and the Princes and Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. While the King became plain Windsor, Prince Louis of Battenberg became a Mountbatten (a literal translation of his German name). Until the day he died in 1921, he never forgot his humiliation. Nor did his second son, Dickie, who was a 14-year-old naval cadet at the time of his father's fall, and vowed to be First Sea Lord...
...almost everything else of any importance. But the two leaders have sat together for twenty-one hours, and even if no solutions have emerged, no one can deny that such talks are a good thing. Conference will continue on most of the major questions, and, if both sides can discard some of their ingrained suspicions, some agreements may be miraculously produced. It may not be unduly optimistic to think that the Khrushchev visit and Eisenhower's springtime trip to Russia will make the important world issues not insoluble, but merely unsolved...
...Social Democrats of West Germany have lost the last three elections and seem doomed to lose .the next-unless they stop calling Volkswagen-driving Germans "comrades," discard their faded red proletarian banners and try to attract the middle-class votes that alone can win them first place. The dissension in West Germany's Socialist opposition has been largely obscured by the spectacular personal struggle between Chancellor Adenauer and Vice Chancellor Erhard in the ruling Christian Democrats...