Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this I reflect the steadfast purpose of the President and the wholehearted support of the Secretary of State and the Attorney General," wrote the Vice President of the U.S., "that the time has now come to take the initiative in the direction of establishment of the world rule of law...
...declaration, penned as he drafted a speech for delivery this week to the American Academy of Political and Social Science, was a momentous one: in its simplest terms it meant that the U.S. was prepared to use the full weight of its prestige toward establishing the rule of law among nations to achieve world peace...
...recognize that this is not enough ... If this sword of annihilation is ever to be removed from its precarious balance over the head of all mankind, some more positive course of action must somehow be found." To Richard Nixon, more positive action lies in extending the rule of law, under which men maintain peace with justice, to govern the course of international conduct...
...Statute. "Is this one of those things that men can think about but cannot get?" Answering his own question, Nixon invoked the words of the late U.S. Senator Robert Taft: "I do not see how we can hope to secure permanent peace in the world except by establishing law between nations and equal justice under law." The process would need no sweeping new charter said Nixon; the International Court of Justice is already established at The Hague and needs only to be used to be effective. "It would be foolish to suppose that litigation before the court is the answer...
...auspicious area for broadening the rule of law: the economic field, where the process of international investment is sadly in need of a code governing relationship between investors and capital-hungry nations. One positive step that the U.S. can take to broaden the authority of the international court: relaxation of the Connally amendment of 1946. which reserves to the U.S. the right to decide whether to permit disputes to go before the international court. The State Department, said Nixon, is now preparing suitable recommendations to Congress...