Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American had probed beneath surface technicalities. To him, the violation of international treaties was an aggravating circumstance; the German invasion of Poland would have been a crime without it?. German-Polish non-aggression pact. The treaties' existence was important to Jackson chiefly as a symptom that the world's conscience had begun to view aggression and war as evils that must be punished. Said he: "Plain people ... revolted at such fictions [as war's legality] and legalisms so contrary to ethical principles, and demanded checks on war immunity...
...last week old skeletons rattled in three quarter time, and the legend that launched a score of novels, movies, plays and operettas tottered. If the voice from the chill Norwegian grave spoke true, then Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, did not die at Mayerling in a suicide pact with his young and lovely Baroness Maria Vetsera...
...them. He bluntly said that the charter of the Nürnberg tribunal, completed three months after V-E day, was the ex-post-facto law on which the trials were based. He cited some precedents for the master charge (the unratified Geneva Protocol of 1924, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, various League of Nations declarations treated aggressive war as an international crime). But, with more courage than legal logic, Jackson faced the basic fact: "It may be said that this is new law, not authoritatively declared at the time they [the defendants] did the acts it condemns. ... I cannot...
This column shouldn't end without a dig at the slick 80-page program issued down at Yale. It made Yale football look like big business--a public relations man's dream--and it made President Seymour's signature on the eight-college Eastern football pact look a little out of place. Or perhaps football programs should have pictures of the football players as they looked...
...address was far less truculent and self-righteous than the one he delivered on the same occasion six years ago. Then Molotov, justifying the Berlin-Moscow pact, pictured Russia as an island in a hostile capitalist world. In 1945, Molotov actually recognized that there were other peaceful states, although he was not ready to concede that they were entirely free from the imperialist taint...