Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even if put to great inconvenience. "Many are thinking," said the London Economist, "of the supertankers that will return to Vasco da Gama's way of evading Levantine pressure," i.e., the voyage around Africa. What most delegates now sought was some compromise that would concede Nasser's legal right of nationalization of the Suez Company, provided that he accepted internationalization of control of the canal...
...will was still there-in Britain, France and (as long as the method chosen was peaceful) in the U.S. But the way was not clear. Search as they might, the legal beagles of Downing Street, Quai d'Orsay and Foggy Bottom could find no legal challenge to Nasser's nationalization of what was in fact an Egyptian company. What they challenged firmly was the way Nasser did it-precipitantly, without negotiation-and why he did it: "To arouse Arab nationalism...
...Wang Ping-nan, Red China's Ambassador to Warsaw. Johnson usually begins by asking about Americans still held in China; Wang accuses the U.S. of holding Chinese in the U.S. against their will, and sputters that all Americans in China will be re leased in accordance with "legal processes," i.e., after they have been tried for espionage. Johnson presses Red China to renounce the use of force in the Formosa Straits; Wang snaps that Formosa is a purely domestic matter. After three or four hours of this they adjourn...
Last week the U.S. and Canada moved to straighten out the legal kink. U.S. Ambassador Livingston Merchant and Finance Minister Walter Harris signed a treaty in Ottawa lowering the 95% requirement on foreign ownership to 51%. When the treaty is ratified by Parliament and Congress, probably at their next sessions, U.S. firms in Canada will be permitted to sell up to 49% of their stock in the country where they do business and still qualify for the low 5% dividend tax rate. Canadians will then be able-and probably will be urged-to make a tenfold increase in their investment...
...licensees promptly took over control of the Homeopathic Society, fired dissenters. While legal briefs were flying, Reddick blithely prepared to license 59 more out-of-state applicants, all dubiously qualified. Meanwhile, the society voted a $500 assessment for all recent members to be used by Reddick for the "protection and maintenance of homeopathy." When Reddick tried to qualify the 59 newcomers, a sheriff and deputies broke up the proceedings. But Reddick nevertheless licensed...