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...point at issue is one that plagues all armies: Should an officer obey orders that he believes violate his conscience or his honor? German generals were found guilty at Nurnberg and executed by the Allies because they did not place conscience above orders from Hitler. Soviet officers at Budapest were reportedly executed by the Red army when they did put conscience above orders and refused to shoot down Hungarian freedom fighters. In World War II, Charles de Gaulle's conscience drove him to disobey the orders of Marshal Pétain when he escaped to Britain...
...twinge of regret: in April, he upheld a ruling of District Court Judge Frank Johnson Jr. that Montgomery could not segregate its public parks, but noted that the decision was a Pyrrhic one for the Negro plaintiffs since the city was sure to close the parks rather than obey (it did). Last year also, in the Goldsby case, Rives established the far-reaching principle that Negroes cannot be convicted of crime in counties that bar them from jury service...
...over control of the city's educational system and proclam a school holiday. In defiance of Judge Wright's restraining orders, the legislature has issued written demands to the school principals not to integrate and had voted to remove those members of the school board who had moved to obey the federal action. Another resolution prohibited inter-school transfers without legislative consent. In an appeal to the public, the House urged white parents to boycott the two integrated schools. At present, with these and other measures rescinded by Judge Wright, Governor Davis is under injunction forbidding any further legislation designed...
Intuition v. Reason. In Japan, Koestler observed, the techniques of Zen "show remarkable psychological insight and produce some equally remarkable results." But the results are far from remarkable when Zen is exported overseas and seeded among Western intellectuals with an entirely different cultural background. "They tried hard to obey its command: 'Let your mind go and become like a ball in a mountain stream'; the result was a punctured tennis ball surrounded by garbage, bouncing down the current from a burst water main...
...excommunicated." Taking its cue, Puerto Rico's new Catholic Action Party, openly sponsored by Davis and McManus, took full-page daily ads in the newspapers to remind voters that "Catholics cannot vote for the Popular Party." Spot radio commercials proclaimed that "the Masons, the Protestants and the Communists obey Luis Muñoz Marin. Catholics obey their bishops...