Word: facto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dinner Debate. In Bangkok, Eden tackled Dulles over a late dinner. He urged that the U.S. announce, publicly and unilaterally, that it has no interests in Quemoy and Matsu. This would force a Nationalist evacuation, put the wide Formosa Strait between the contestants, effect a de facto ceasefire, and kill the military potential of the Formosa forces. Dulles indicated that if the Reds would talk reasonably, he might be willing to discuss the coastal islands, but that an attack on Formosa would mean war. With that Eden had to be content...
...Facto. In Danville, ILL., Mrs. Hazel Franklin Lewis, seeking a-refund of income taxes, filed a brief in federal court without the aid of counsel, arguing that since an amendment is denned as a change for the better and not for the worse, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which gives Congress power to collect taxes, is unconstitutional...
...controlling principle, and soon even this must crumble, for its irrelevance to the absolute is perceived. If Kafka (from whom Beuhling derives much) is read as an anguished, exhausted, yet still regretful voice, In the Forested Plains speaks from a point beyond the surrender; renders the de facto account of the consciousness fulfilling its ordained self-destruction. And that the hunger principle rather than the love principle characterizes the sensuality which motivates the action is by no means accidental; for it serves to emphasize an egotism whose manifold self-probing must lead to the deceptive freedom of self-annihilation. This...
...Dean went on to attack those who used the cumbersome expression "anti-anti-communists." To believe, as the expression infers, that any anti-communist must inso facto not only be good but beyond any sort of criticism. . . is surely un-American." To adopt methods which are essentially communistic will gain us nothing in our fight against communism, he continued...
Outside the Law. On May 2, 1945, President Truman selected Jackson to serve as the chief U.S. prosecutor for the Nürnberg trials of Nazi war criminals. Jackson was lawyer enough to realize that the Nazi leaders were being tried on ex post facto grounds. He excused this by saying that the war criminals had been so wicked, so inhumane, that they "cannot bring themselves within the reason of the rule which in some systems of jurisprudence prohibits ex post facto laws." In his opening statement, Jackson said: "We must never forget that the record on which we judge...