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...which it has always been most proud-its free press. By Government order, newspapers, instead of being privately owned, must henceforth represent political parties, trade unions, youth movements and other organized groups. They retain the right to criticize the Government and individuals so long as they do not impair the safety of the nation...
...human welfare. There was a tremendous development of what our Commission has referred to as curative and creative processes. The result will be an organization which is subjected to principles of justice and of international law and which is designed to recommend the change of any conditions which might impair those principles or the general welfare or friendly relations among nations. It will be an organization which is dedicated to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; to create conditions of stability and well-being and through international cooperation, to promote higher...
...Powers at the conference yielded on many points to expand the Assembly's functions. The Assembly can discuss anything. It can make recommendations for the peaceful adjustment of situations which might impair peace "regardless of origin." The only exception -and an important one - is that the Assembly cannot recommend action on matters already taken up by the Security Council...
...thought was in favor of keeping the Negro in his traditional place. Florida's New Deal stalwart, Senator Claude Pepper, had been having great difficulty in his primary race for reelection. Now, liberal or no liberal, he hopped nimbly on the bandwagon: "The South will allow nothing to impair white supremacy." Said Louisiana's Senator John H. Overton: "The South, at all costs, will maintain the rule of white supremacy." And a desperate call to arms came from another candidate for reelection: Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. He told his constituents: "All those...
President Manuel Avila Camacho took the labor bull by the horns last week, struck at the last vestiges of union control of Mexico's railroads. Management now has power to hire & fire, to disregard all union regulations which "slow up, impede or impair" operation-more power, in fact, than U.S. railway management possesses...