Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merle Fainsod, professor of government, will not be giving the two half-courses originally scheduled for him next Spring, it was announced last night. Instead, he will be engaged in unspecified work at the Russian Research Center...
...constitutionality of signing such a treaty has been discussed at length throughout the past few weeks; strictly speaking, it would be illegal for Congress to obligate itself ahead of time to declare war in the event of a Russian invasion of western Europe. Senator Vandenberg and other exports, however, have found many loopholes in this technical point which make it clear that the United States can join the pact if it wants to. The question is: should...
...participation. The advantages would be great. By putting our already-incurred commitments down on paper, we would do much to bolster the center-party governments on the continent by proving to the people of France and the Benelux nations that we will not desert them in case of a Russian invasion. There is still a very real segment of European public opinion that believes the United States will pull out and leave Russia to fill the power vacuum...
...Soviet legal profession assert that their law is "essentially different from all types of law known for history." To determine whether or not Soviet law is of a new type and if no, where the novelty lies is an difficult task because of the relative youth of the Russian legal system, Professor Berman pointed...
Berman said that Soviet law had made "interesting innovations" in the trial of criminal cases. Russian prosecutors "focus on the state of mind of the accused" and call in psychiatrist to find out what drove the accused to crime, he reported...