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...disarmament plan presented in London on May 10. It was a clever document, advocating 1) a reduction in conventional armaments (Russia, Red China and the U.S. down to 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 men each, Britain and France to 650,000) and 2) a world conference to prohibit atomic weapons...
...annulment was granted, the Chinese seaman's lawyers appealed. Last week the Virginia Supreme Court reviewed the constitutionality of the law for the first time and upheld it. Said Justice Archibald C. Buchanan: "We are unable to read in the 14th Amendment . . . any words or intendment which prohibit the state from enacting legislation to preserve the racial integrity of its citizens . . . so that it shall not have a mongrel breed of citizens. We find there is no requirement that the state shall not legislate to prevent the obliteration of racial pride, but must permit the corruption of blood, even...
...country that guarantees freedom of religion has no right to make laws about morals ; that public opinion is divided as to whether smoking, drinking, gambling and professional sex service are vices; that the church has the right to teach these certain acts are wrong, but has no right to prohibit them." This view is connected with the belief of many leading Galveston businessmen that sin is good for business; that the tourist trade would fall off if gambling and prostitution were sup pressed...
Next, Malik proposed that the Disarmament Commission draw up for the Security Council an international convention which would "completely prohibit the use and manufacture of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction...
...apocryphal. Truth may at times be stranger than fiction, but stories, even true ones, have a way of growing. For instance, how could 48 Holworthy men have fitted into the small Class Day fountain? And was Professor Sophocles ignorant or exempt from the dormitory regulations which prohibit animals of any nature from being in rooms...