Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veto-less General Assembly, the situation is more complex. The U.N. Charter requires a two-thirds vote for passage of "important questions." Said Dulles: "Anybody that does not think this is an important matter is exercising a curious judgment...
...majority finding confirmed the judgment of the special board headed by onetime Army Secretary Gordon Gray. But there were two important differences. Where the Gray board had commended Oppenheimer's discretion with secret data, the AEC majority was significantly silent. Where the Gray board criticized Oppenheimer's opposition to H-bomb development, the commissioners held that the physicist's policy opinions are not relevant to his security status...
...point of your article ... seems to be that no man has a right to place his own judgment above that of the state. Anything is "justified in the name of national interest and national survival." Such statements disturb me deeply. How is such a philosophy different from totalitarianism ? My ancestors came to this country as religious dissenters over 150 years ago to escape just such thinking. They wanted the freedom to obey their own consciences rather than the dicta of government...
...Tory and Socialist alike, speaker after speaker rose to congratulate Eden on his speech and his Geneva mission, to deplore the U.S. refusal to recognize Communist China, to urge the government to continue its independence of U.S. policy. Sir Robert Boothby, the Tories' TV glamour boy, passed his judgment on Eden at Geneva: "I know of no comparable diplomatic achievement during the past 25 years." Opposition Leader Clement Attlee declared that the "most notable" thing about Geneva was the European debut of the "real rulers" of China, and the "most important" thing the "contact" established with the Chinese government...
...provincial election this week in North Rhine-Westphalia. This is the largest and most important of West Germany's nine states (it contains the Ruhr). Its nearly 10 million eligible voters would only elect 200 new deputies to the state legislature at Diisseldorf, but they were also rendering judgment on how much Konrad Adenauer's popularity has fallen...