Word: governability
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...result of this analysis of our way of life, we must inevitably conclude that our greatest deficiency is that we have not yet applied our knowledge of how men may govern themselves by law to the determination of all disputes between countries. The opportunity now presented for men and peoples skilled in the law is therefore the greatest of all time. What we need is the development of the law of nations in our age which will first bind the countries of the world into solemn voluntary pacts governing their great interests on the world scene, in contrast to unilateral...
...bill's most dangerous opponent was Ohio's Frank Bow, who threatened to tack on it what the House calls "The Bow thing"-a resolution to scrap U.S. status-of-forces agreements (TIME. June 17), which govern the arrangements for law enforcement for U.S. troops overseas. Waving off all remonstrances, Bow did experience at the last moment a tactical change of heart. He decided to save his amendment for the actual appropriation bill, where it would be more potent. But Texas Democrat Omar Burleson grabbed the issue, offered a "sense of Congress" amendment calling on the President...
...eight journalists were arrested or indicted, and 15 French publications were confiscated in Algeria and Paris for stories and editorials critical of the government in the six-month period. As Defense Minister, concluded the I.P.I, report, M. Bourges-Maunoury "revealed to the world, if such were still necessary, the weakness of French politics and the panic of officials who wish to govern with the approval of the public-yet fear its reactions...
...question that troubles every Frenchman: Can a French minority remain, one million against eight million, in an Algerian Republic? But, he warns, "the longer the pacifying war continues, the more the chances of peaceful cohabitation between the two communities diminish." In the long run the men who govern an Algerian Republic, "unless they are carried away by mad blindness, cannot ignore the need they will have of France." For Aron the crux of the question is the formation of this Algerian state-"a difficult enterprise, and nobody can guarantee its success...
...Monarchist in name only-the autographed portrait of King Umberto II that graced his desk has recently disappeared -Lauro has no illusions about restoring the House of Savoy. His more modest goal is to build the sagging Italian right into a political force strong enough to help govern Italy in coalition with the Christian Democrats...