Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitdown Walkout. At last, Baruch accepted a Canadian amendment to send the report back to a working committee with instructions to pay due heed to the U.S. "principles," but to bring the phrasing into harmony with the Assembly's disarmament resolution-a document which does not mention punishment or vetoes. The vote in favor was 10-to-0. Poland abstained; Russia's Gromyko did not even "abstain"-in the technical sense. He simply said: "I am not taking part in this discussion." This was a walkout lacking only the physical act, a sort of sitdown walkout...
...Canada has a better form of government than the United States, and therefore a better ability to advance real democracy. The American Constitution is too rigid, and stays rigid because they have made it a sacred document. At the present moment a man who does not wish to be President, and whom the majority of Americans do not wish to be President, must serve his term as a prisoner of the Constitution for two more years. The Chief Executive in the United States has too much responsibility. . . . Mackenzie King is still with us after 20 years. . . . No American President could...
...committees in recent Council history, the constitution presented to the Student Council on Monday evening by the Constitutional committee is, in the best democratic tradition, a compromise. It is a compromise between the much-abused and never ratified constitution under which the Council worked for a decade, and the document plumping for "more democracy" offered by the summer "revision" committee, which did its work in the double heat of the August sun and an inflamed segment of the student body. In totality, the proposed constitution leans far and healthy towards the latter pole...
Although Moslem delegates to the Constitutional assembly framing the document walked out on the proceedings, Krishna Menon believed that even they would finally accept it. "If it doesn't come to that," he said, "then we must face the situation as it arises...
...whole Soviet Union had a holiday last week to celebrate the tenth anniversary of "the only thoroughly democratic constitution in the world." All papers carried huge pictures of Stalin; the document's seven other top founding fathers went unmentioned.* "Our greatest happiness," explained Izvestia, "is being able to live under the sun of the Stalin Constitution, each article of which is sacred...