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...question remained: Had the prosecution proved anything beyond the victors' power to punish the vanquished? In Washington last week, where he had flown to report to President Truman, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph Berry Keenan answered with a resounding yes. Said he: "We see this trial as establishing the precedent. . . that wagers of aggressive warfare are . . . outlaws...
Friends of labor "could take comfort from some words: "We must not, in order to punish a few labor leaders, pass vindictive laws which will restrict the proper rights of the rank & file of labor." But his proposal that a joint congressional-presidential commission be set up to draft labor legislation was opening the door to another Case Bill-since that is exactly what G.O.P. congressional members would demand...
Cruel & Unusual. Next day the broadcasters were jabbed again, and in similar fashion, by FCCommissioner Charles R. Denny, who made the crack of the convention: "I take this occasion to deny that the commission is planning to punish large numbers of wayward broadcasters by forcing them to listen to their own stations two hours every day. This would be clearly unconstitutional, under the Eighth Amendment, as cruel and unusual punishment...
...Soon she has a second and better opportunity for mischief in the guise of piety. A country boy entrusted to a saintly and intelligent priest for schooling falls in love with Brigitte's stepdaughter. The woman separates them to punish their "sin," and sends the girl to a convent where she is even forbidden to write to her lover...
...Reconsider Your Policy." "Had I fought them with personal lust or for the gain of a few men, it would be I-a monstrous criminal whom heaven should punish. But if they were rebels misguided by you, then you are the murderer. In the silence of the night, think upon it . . . reconsider your policy. . . . What people hate most is war. What they need most is peace . . . you say you will struggle on for ten years more of fighting and disturbance. What would then be left for people...