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...very few minutes a very few Senators beamed. Then skepticism set in. Snapped Colorado's Edwin C. Johnson: "If it is possible to outlaw the bomb, why not go the whole step and outlaw...
Kenneth McKellar, President of the U.S. Senate, last week temporarily yielded his chair, stepped down to the floor and informed his astonished colleagues that he had solved the problem of the bomb. Outlaw it, said the gentleman from Tennessee...
...York Times pointed out that to outlaw atomic energy as a weapon was useless without considering "the rest of war's horrible paraphernalia. In a word, the trail must be blazed for disarmament and peace...
...group of Oxford economists opposed Bretton Woods because it "tended to outlaw discriminatory practices" held to be necessary in Britain's desperate debtor position. The Beaverbrook papers criticized Bretton Woods as a return to an inflexible gold standard. Sharpest attacks came from a "young Tory" M.P., Robert John Graham Boothby, once Churchill's private secretary, who charged that advocates interpreted Bretton Woods as the gold standard in the U.S. and as a flexible system in Britain. With all the weight of his authority, Lord Keynes called Bretton Woods "the exact opposite of the gold standard...
...because it passeth all understanding." For this attack the Government had Wilkes arrested and his house rifled on a general warrant, which violated his civil rights. Then Wilkes, against all parliamentary precedent, was not allowed to avoid prosecution by pleading parliamentary privilege. Bolting to France, he was declared an outlaw by the Government, but acclaimed a hero by the mob. "Wilkes and Liberty" became a national outcry...