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...Corporation's statement of last spring joined the party in 1938, quitting in 1947. There is some doubt among lawyers as to whether the oath is promissory, holding him in 1938 to something he said in 1934. It also seems that the penalty would be ex post facto in this case since he quit the party a year before it was added...
...Foreign Office man put it, "There is a little coquetry going on. We have reason to believe that the Russians want to make friends with us." The strike was getting unpopular among the strikers themselves; presumably the Reds did not want to put too much strain on the de facto "unity of action" they had to some extent achieved among the workers, although leaders of the non-Communist unions continued to resist the blandishments of a Popular Front appeal...
...British Commonwealth countries, the conference would be a failure if Russia were not there. The British hope to convert the Korean parley into a de facto Big Five conference and talk magniloquently of driving a wedge between Moscow and Peking. This week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold implied that the British approach was "cooperative and constructive," and Cabot Lodge, bowing to the inevitable, accepted a compromise that was a U.S. capitulation in everything but name. In deference to the U.S., the Assembly might not actually invite Russia to the conference. It could simply recommend that a Soviet representative be seated...
...concept based solely on "peace and security," not on "law and justice." He took the unpopular position, as so many of his positions were, of denouncing the Nürnberg trials, which "violate the fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute ... In these trials we have accepted the Russian idea of the purpose of trials-government policy and not justice...
...Constitution . . . prohibits passage of an ex post facto act." To try the Rosenbergs for crimes committed in 1944 and 1945 under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 would be an ex post facto procedure...