Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hungary's National Council of People's Courts, the country's highest tribunal, last week completed its review of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty's life imprisonment sentence. Said Presiding Judge Peter Janko: "There is not the slightest doubt that Mindszenty should have been sentenced to death." The tribunal, however, let the life sentence stand because "the case lost its original importance with the arrest arid sentencing of the cardinal. . . The Catholic masses calmed down...
...melancholy pen & ink drawings of the debris of Fascist Rome, and 23-year-old Marcello Muccini's Bull, as sharp and simple as a pair of murderous horns, held their own beside the work of their elders. Italian art had survived Fascism, the exhibition proved beyond a doubt. It was at least as lively as that of the U.S., Britain and France; and, on the evidence of the younger painters, there was more to come...
...recollect that any civilization ever perished from an attack of doubt," Ortega said. "I recollect that civilizations usually die through the ossification of their traditional faith, through an arteriosclerosis of their beliefs...
Following the Flag. In a belated-and reluctant-opinion which sided with a six-month-old majority decision, Justice Willam 0. Douglas raised a conscience-pricking doubt about the legality of the Allies' punishment of Axis war criminals. When seven of the 25 Japanese warlords convicted in Tokyo appealed to the Supreme Court last year, the court decided it had no power to upset the judgment of the international tribunal which tried them. Now Douglas wanted to know: if the Supreme Court can't scrutinize the tribunals' judgments, who can? "If an American general holds a prisoner...
...anyone still in doubt as to the real status of Tass, a London court made a clarifying decision last week. Vladimir Krajina, a refugee Czech now living in London, had filed a libel suit against Tass for charging in a news bulletin distributed to London newspapers that he had betrayed British paratroopers to the Gestapo. The Court of Appeal dismissed Krajina's complaint. Reason: on the testimony of the Russian ambassador himself, Tass was an official organ of the Soviet state; as such, it was entitled to full diplomatic immunity, even when it published a libel...