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...change ran into some hot Senate opposition. Ohio's G.O.P. Senator John W. Bricker called the agreement "a callous disregard" of the rights of U.S. servicemen. Suppose, he warned, an American were tried for a minor violation before a Communist French judge, or a Moslem magistrate who sentenced according to Islamic law.* A tourist or commercial traveler voluntarily submits himself to the law of a country he visits. A conscripted soldier is subjected to a law he may have had neither duty nor opportunity to learn, and no share in making...
Hungary was a vestigially feudal country when the Communists took it over in 1944 in their sweep toward Vienna. The conquerors' remedy was the one Lenin had prescribed for Russia: speedy industrialization. With the same ruthless disregard for human life which characterized Stalin's carrying out of the Leninist injunction, they pursued this end: farmlands were collectivized, workers brutally regimented, living standards depressed. Last week, in a swift move that had overtones of the great Moscow turnabout of the '20s, the Hungarian Communists reversed their program...
...Moral victories," the cynic claims, "don't mean a thing." The varsity lacrosse team can disregard that assertion, and can well look back on Saturday's 11 to 7 loss to Yale with satisfaction and pride...
...other hand, these two are allowed to proceed in disregard one for the other, you then create a situation either of doubtful military strength, or of such precarious economic strength that your military position is in constant jeopardy. It has been the purpose of this Administration ever since it took office, finding itself confronted with a crazy quilt of promises, commitments and contracts, to bring American military logic and American economic logic into joint, strong harness...
...amorphous character of the crimes; vide the Lattimore indictment involving the alleged promotion of Communist interests; (3) the use of the conspiracy concept of which we were warned by Justice Jackson in the Krulewitch case; (4) the governmental use of informers paraded from case in case; (5) the disregard of basic principles of double jeopardy, as in the second Remington case; (6) by the extraordinary breadth of evidence permitted to go to a jury--as in the Bridges case where the charge of Communist membership was regarded as supported by his views on trade with China, and the recent Rosenberg...