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...Nazi defendants pleaded "state orders," 19 were convicted and ten were hanged. To skeptics, Nurnberg proved mainly that losing a war had become a crime under international law. Nevertheless, the supremacy of civilized rules of behavior was enunciated in a U.N. report: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or a superior does not relieve him of responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible...
When Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy filed an order requiring Advance, an "organization of progressive youth" to file as a Communist-front group pursuant to the McCarran Act of 1950, he cited as evidence a number of issues on which the Advance position ran parallel to that of the U.S. Communist Party. These included...
...Library said in a statement: "The library will adhere to its policy, namely to circulate the novel to adults on a reserved basis until restrained or enjoined from doing so by a competent authority or until there is a final judicial determination that the book is obscene, pursuant to its firm and long-standing commitment to protect the public's 'freedom to read.'" Nugent's action, said the library, "constituted a deprivation of fundamental constitutional rights guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Arumendments...
...Cuba's nonsensical answer, delivered by Foreign Minister Raúl Roa: The U.S. Secretary of State had personally insulted Diplomat Patterson. "We demand that whenever the United States Government addresses itself to representatives of the revolutionary government, it do so with absolute respect for their official status pursuant to accepted diplomatic standards...
...reckoning, and the last living veteran of the Civil War, with a story of a career as a Confederate foragemaster; in Houston. Recent investigations have indicated that Hero Williams was only five years old when war broke out, but his fame is secure : President Eisenhower, pursuant to a July act of Congress, declared a day of national mourning, and Fourth Army units will lead a parade to Franklin, Texas, where Williams will be buried with full military honors...