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...agreements, pledged themselves (as the U.S. did not) to consult on measures "to insure that the cease-fire agreements are respected." Bedell Smith, looking tired and in pain, read the U.S.'s unilateral declaration pledging the U.S. to "refrain from the threat or use of force" to disturb the armistice, and warning that any renewal of aggression would be viewed "with grave concern...
...point of your article ... seems to be that no man has a right to place his own judgment above that of the state. Anything is "justified in the name of national interest and national survival." Such statements disturb me deeply. How is such a philosophy different from totalitarianism ? My ancestors came to this country as religious dissenters over 150 years ago to escape just such thinking. They wanted the freedom to obey their own consciences rather than the dicta of government...
...Workers staged mass anti-government demonstrations in the streets of Hankow. Sixteen pushcart coolies accused of "inciting them to disturb general peace and security" were sentenced to death at a public trial (Yangtze Daily, March...
Mother McKenzie, vacationing in Italy now worries that such passages may one day disturb her sons, "now sophisticated young Londoners." If they have a good share of her own temperament, she need not worry. They will probably grow up to applaud her for a fine memoir and graceful evidence of a civilized mind...
...gendarmes roamed the cities, questioning the rich and searching the workingmen. If a suspect was caught with an out-of-date banknote (a symbol used by Istiqlal members for identification), he was likely to be jailed on charges of "beginning the execution of an act whose nature would disturb public order." Guillaume has reinforced the police by bringing in solidly pro-French Berbers from the hills...