Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Western observers, however, were careful to qualify judgment of the incredible Hungarians with such statements as "morally and psychologically, the revolution is as strong as ever." Something like that was acknowledged by Premier Kadar in an interview with Communist East German correspondents. Said Kadar: "The military defeat has been completed. It will be the ideological struggle that will be the most important...
...released from prison in 1790, he found himself a hero of the new revolution, and was made a judge. But the man who commended cruelty as a means of individual expression recoiled from institutionalized cruelty. Most of all, he denied that any man had the right to sit in judgment on another. He pardoned nearly every aristocrat brought before him, even spared the family of his detested mother-in-law. Soon he was arrested for "moderantism," was saved from the guillotine only by the fact that Robespierre fell from power the day before his scheduled execution...
Last week the NATO powers accepted this logic. "The peoples of Eastern Europe should have the right to choose their own governments freely, unaffected by external pressure," said the final communique. In effect, this was an acceptance of the fact that, in the West's best judgment, Gomulkaism is the best the satellite peoples could hope for now-since it is perhaps the most the Russians presently dare accept...
Said Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd: "The partners should on occasion be able to act unilaterally and according to the dictates of their best judgment, without jeopardizing the firm foundations of their understanding." Said the London Economist: "Britain's proper attitude towards the U.S. is the attitude that Australia has long maintained towards Britain. It is an attitude of blasphemous private candor about most matters and about awkward Foreign Secretaries, but of sufficient loyalty to allow any American leader to feel confident that when really big issues arise, Britain will never deceive...
What the editors seek is not the right to run the names of all youthful violators, but freedom to use their judgment on what names to print. Many of them also feel that names should be used more often to put pressure on the offenders and their parents. Says the Miami Herald's Associate Editor John D. Pennekamp: "Juvenile criminals are as bad as adult criminals-or worse. Maybe if they see it in the papers, the juveniles will believe it themselves." The strict Florida law preventing courts and police from divulging juvenile names recently led a young hoodlum...