Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cloth such as the Rev. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead has in relation to the questions of birth and death. He asks for legislation for mercy killing. We have the greatest legislation of all, divine legislation, "Thou shalt not kill," and no man has the right to amend this law...
Rule of Thumb. In Niles, Mich., two teen-agers arrested for stealing a car explained to the municipal court judge that they borrowed it because hitchhiking is against the law...
Francis H. Russell said at the 10th joint reunion luncheon that diplomats, like lawyers, must establish common objectives and definite principles to settle conflicts. "Diplomacy, if successful, uses techniques of law," Russell stated...
...ambassador, who graduated from the Law School 30 years ago, claimed that the traditional dispute among lawyers over natural law or pragmatism is only a "surface conflict" and that both must be employed in legal or diplomatic cases. In this connection Russell traced what he called "the necessary closeness of law and diplomacy...
This closeness results from the "conflict of issues--the medium of law and its source--" is also what comprises diplomacy, the ambassador said. He criticized the term "East-West conflict" and preferred to describe the world situation as one in which people are free to govern themselves against a world of a single political system of terror and frustration of democratic processes...