Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DURING the darkest moments of mob rule at Little Rock, the Right Rev. Robert Raymond Brown, Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas, picked up his phone and put in a long-distance call to Washington. Bishop Brown was calling Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson, once a member of his parish in Richmond, to offer his good offices in any sort of effort to be helpful in what he called "the school situation." Assistant Secretary Robertson called Attorney General Herbert Brownell, who called the President, who sat down almost immediately and wrote the Bishop a letter. "I deeply believe," said the President...
...misled by the apparent acquiescence of China's captive intellectuals, said Hu. "In the old days," he said, "so long as a man remained silent, he would not be molested." But today men are forced to speak and write praise of the Red regime. Under Communist rule, said Hu Shih, there is not even the "freedom of silence...
...breaks two fundamental rights of a citizen, namely, to live in his own country, and to have access to the courts." For the government, Bing cited Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, the Kabaka of Buganda and Bechuanaland's Seretse Khama as individuals who had been deported under British parliamentary rule. Retorted Quass: "I know of no precedent for suggesting that [the constitution's] words-'Peace, order and good government'-have been used anywhere to justify a breach of the fundamental rights of people everywhere to reside in the state in which they are citizens...
...dispute in the dusty Ashanti capital touched a crucial Commonwealth question, a question of which Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies observed recently: "Perhaps we do not always understand that 'the rule of law' and 'the rule of Parliament' can be separately stated in words but are not easily separated in fact. Self-government is not only a political conception. It is a legal conception. In short, I don't believe there can be any form of parliamentary self-government without a recognition of the rule...
...last week's riots in Warsaw testified (see FOREIGN NEWS), troubled, spirited Poland continues to writhe under the heel of Communist rule. But the heel has been lifted enough, since Wladyslaw Gomulka came to power a year ago, to permit the restoration to its proper place of Poland's greatest treasure of religion and art. After 18 years' absence, the famed Cracow altar, a huge, polychrome Gothic masterpiece carved out of linden wood in the 15th century, is back in its place in the red brick Church of Our Lady...