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...Under it, the world organization may reach into a country to get at the causes of war only when all the Big Powers agree that world peace is en dangered. The section finally agreed on gives a future Hitler a little less chance to prevent intervention simply by assert ing that his policies are "domestic." The principle of domestic jurisdiction bore importantly on future colonial questions, and Britain insisted on the restriction...
...normal" young man with funds from the Grant Foundation maintained by W. T. Grant, New York merchant. Professor Hooton did not participate in the study, and his account, which he has summarized for the press, is preliminary, non-technical, and written with the objectivity of an outsider look ing...
...told his gorgeous wife Barbara (the future Duke of Wellington's sister). "Darling," she answered, "six months of the kind of happiness you have given me is more than any woman deserves." A few days later, Sir Horatio, flying a commodore's pendant, was beat ing up the Channel in the 900-man ship of the line Nonsuch, followed by two sloops, two bomb-ketches and a cutter...
...built a church at St. Stephen, just across the narrow St. Croix River from Calais. His congregation included people from both sides of the border. When the War of 1812 broke out, he called a meet ing of Americans and Canadians. "I've christened you and married you and buried you," he told them. "We've been like one family...
...along, ask no quarter, and doIt't give any." Died. Achmed Abdullah, 64, bemono-cled fictioneer `Who gathered material for his intrigue-filled potboilers by living a fiction-like life - working simultaneously as a Turkish cavalryman and a British secret agent, dealing faro in Nevada, play ing poker for a cap and gloves during a 50-below-zero Tibetan blizzard ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...