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With their usual equanimity in political matters, Uruguayans quietly witnessed a notable change in their country's government last week. Just one year after his inauguration, President Andrés Martínez Trueba stepped down from his high office and took oath as a member of the new nine-man federal council. Thus the "Switzerland of the Americas" became one of the two countries in the world to be governed by an executive council with a rotating chairmanship. (The other: Switzerland.) As its first presiding officer, the council chose a man who had worked hard to persuade Uruguayans...
...didn't become interested in politics until I came to Harvard in 1925," and Mather considers the Teacher's Oath Law of 1936 one of the most important battles he has undertaken. "The bill was proposed while I was a member of the Newton School Committee; I was aware of the effort being made by the politicians to control school policies and the teaching programs. To me, the law was the first step in putting the educational system under the control of the politicians. It seemed that we should take our stand then and refuse to permit state officials...
...years," said Deputy Heuillard, "I was in a concentration camp. I saw die all my comrades in the Resistance network. I saw die in Flossenburg almost the entire shipment of prisoners who had come from Buchenwald ... We had sworn an oath among us that the eventual survivors would never permit Germany to recreate her military strength. Today, despite all these memories, despite all these material and moral ruins still yawning before us, we are about to recreate the German army ... Is our public opinion ready to accept the consequences? Ask those who were deported or the families of those...
After a considerable length of time, during which officialdom busied itself at the front of the room and we wanted herdlike in our seats at the back, the judge came in. He wasted no time in beginning us on the oath of allegiance; an official read it, phrase by phrase, and we repeated it after him, right down to the inflections. "Here-to-fore..." cried the reader, chopping out every syllably; "here-to-fore . . ." we responded. Throughout the swearing of the oath another beadle marched up and down the aisles, eyeing us to make sure that there weren...
...oath, I thought, dwelled rather too fully on the subject of military service. But perhaps I was being overly sensitive: all around me old men and middleaged women were swearing to take up arms in defense of the nation without any apparent qualms...