Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President had previously said that he must have a constitutional amendment to settle the complex issue of presidential succession; certainly any "understanding" with Nixon must have no legal status. Official disclosures of the content of the accord, for example, indicate that should Eisen-hower become disabled, Nixon would become "Acting President" until the President had recovered...
Eisenhower's willingness to make a non-legal "understanding" smacks of palace politics. The Presidency is not a personal possession to be so lightly willed to Mr. Nixon. While the office would, in any event, be his if Eisenhower should be unable to execute his constitutional duties, it should be his only after certain legal procedures had been followed...
...Sudan immediately hand over to Egypt 1) a 6,700-sq. mi. triangle of desert and scrub hills around Halaib on the Red Sea, 2) a 90-sq. mi. finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt and Britain set up a joint rule over the Sudan, drew the political boundary between Egypt and the Sudan along the 22nd...
...Accuse! (M-G-M). The Dreyfus Affair was a tremendous social and political upheaval that rumbled on long after the legal proceedings (1894-1906) were closed, and in the process almost shattered France's Third Republic. In / Accuse!, the sordid, splendid story is told on the screen for at least the sixth time. Mistakes have been made in the picture: the political repercussions of the affair are scarcely suggested, and the fateful social struggle which it dramatized is fobbed off with some anti-Semitic dialogue and a few shots of screaming headlines and howling mobs. What survives...
...members." Opposition Deputies protested that the law could be used to prevent publication of legitimate criticism of the government. The Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet sent a copy of the statute to Professor Husein Kubali, a Sorbonne-trained expert on constitutional law at Istanbul University, asked for his opinion. On strictly legal grounds, Kubali held that the statute was unconstitutional because "it perverted the principle of freedom of expression" as denned by the Turkish constitution...