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...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...
...Post Facto. In Indianapolis, Isaac ("Tuffy") Mitchell, serving 90 days in the Indiana State Prison for gambling, applied for and was issued a federal gambling stamp for "wagering...
...division into opposing camps, on the other hand, would only mean a solidification of the status quo. But this very fact makes it a dangerous capitulation, highly risky from both a military and a political point of view. For any such settlement would mean de facto recognition of the Communist Viet-Minh government, which has previously been only an outlawed guerilla band. A move of this kind would give tremendous impteus to Communist propaganda throughout Asia, and it would immeasurably increase the prestige of Red China as the self-styled protectors of Asian nationalism. Equally important are the military considerations...