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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grave misgivings." He introduced a bill that would enable the government to amend key clauses of the constitution, not by a two-thirds majority in both Parliament and the regional assemblies, but by a simple majority of the Parliament alone, where he controls 80 out of 104 seats. The present arrangement, he blandly explained, made it much too easy for anyone "to challenge much of the legislation required for social improvement and industrial development on the grounds that it is contrary to the constitution...
Following Lattimore's speech before the U.N. Council, there will be a panel of three professors to pose questions and present their own views on China. One of the panel members, John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, called Lattimore "one of the few specialists on Mongolia." In fact, he said, "he is probably the only American specialist of his generation...
...members must make considerable financial sacrifice to teach under the present system, and MIT teachers even more. As it is, only relatively well-to-do "idealists" can afford to participate in the program. Scholarship students are effectively excluded as are many students with cars, Herzog reports. Most of the students could earn extra money tutoring if they were not in the HUT. Herzog is looking for an organization that will lend financial support so that the group can pay interested undergraduates a salary of $2.50 an hour plus transportation expenses...
Wechsler, who holds a chair in law at Columbia University, was an assistant attorney general from 1944 to 1946. Part of that time he served at the Nuremberg Trials as a judge's adviser. At present, Wechsler is working with the American Law Institute on the drafting of a model penal code...
Nevertheless, if any constructive agreement on disarmament is to come out of this present conference, the final plan will have to include provisions for inspection and enforcement of a test ban. Western diplomats must remain firm on this point, whatever its propaganda disadvantages, and wait for the Soviets to compromise their proposal to include more practical considerations...