Word: disobeys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faith in action. Traditionally, Luther's doctrine of "the two kingdoms" has been taken to imply that Christians hould not interfere in the affairs of state. But Union Theological Seminary's Pauck points out that Luther, in his tract On Civil Government, argued that a Christian must disobey a political ruler who expects him to disobey the will of God. It is no accident that the martyred anti-Nazi hero of the World War II German resistance, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was a Lutheran...
...impassive Junker who was known as the "smasher of cities" for leading blitzkriegs against Rotterdam and Sevastopol, became military chief of Paris in 1944, and was commanded by Hitler to repel the enemy or leave the city "a blackened field of ruins," but chose for the first time to disobey an order and secretly invited the Allies to enter Paris in order to save it, while Hitler angrily demanded, "Is Paris burn ing'?"-the words later made famous by the book and the movie, which will open in the U.S. this week; in Baden-Baden, West Germany...
...probable, however, that the most the Faculty could do would be to approve a resolution declaring that it disagreed with Selective Service regulations as presently constituted. Dean Ford has stated that the University will not disobey any federal laws or procedures with regard to the draft...
...similar cases have been removed from local Southern courts to the presumably fairer federal benches. Nonetheless, said Justice Potter Stewart for the majority, until Congress changes the situation, "no federal law confers an absolute right on private citizens-on civil rights advocates, on Negroes, or on anybody else"-to disobey valid local ordinances...
...offense was more prosaic-he had simply refused to report for induction-but his defense was far more grandiose. Contending that the U.S. is committing genocide and other crimes against world law in Viet Nam, he cited the Nurnberg war-trial verdicts as an injunction on all citizens to disobey illegal orders from their governments. Mitchell was convicted and sentenced to five years after his first trial in Federal District Court in New Haven, Conn., but the Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the conviction on procedural grounds...