Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First opposition speaker was M.D.C. Commissioner Charles W. Greenough '19, who described the legal background of the commission's control of the property. He concluded that he saw the bill as an attempt "to force a taking (by eminent domain) to be made," and "to create a value that doesn't exist." The land is assessed at only $100, though Sullivan says he paid much more...
Helge Holst of the Cambridge Citizens' Advisory Committee further described the legal background and asked the committee to find a "permanent answer" to the problem, one which would prevent the bill from coming up in future years...
...Cuban revolution has been remarkable in a way. The wholesale slaughter of Batista adherents which observers feared would follow the fall of the old dictatorship did not materialize. While the "atrocity" trials alarmed many people who could treasure legal procedure in a calmer and less vengeful society, Castro did a reasonable job of adhering to civilized forms...
...violating the accepted priniciple that no defendant may be put in jeopardy twice for the same crime, Castro has destroyed even the veneer of legalities which the trials maintained. He has also shown that he places himself above the legal machinery of the revolutionary regime. It seems that those whom Castro proscribes will be punished no matter what the courts may decide...
Nobody would suggest that the problems Cuba faces have not been real and difficult, but after four hundred executions and two months' suspension of constitutional rights, it is depressing to find the abuses of legal procedure growing even more acute. As an ex-lawyer, Fidel Castro is making a thorough success of destroying...