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Originally, the British opposed building the Suez Canal, but six years after it opened, it took the British just seven days to buy up the biggest financial share. A few years later, to safeguard their investment, they took complete military control of the canal zone, promising to get out again in six years, once things had quieted down. That was 72 years...
Even in the mellow glow of 1945, the delegates who met at San Francisco to sign the Charter had the foresight to know it was by no means perfect. As a safeguard, they wrote in a provision to allow for a review conference after ten years, if a simple majority in the General Assembly votes to have one. The review is scheduled for next yea. Saturday's UN Day, therefore, marks the end of this first trial period...
Legislative committees have "thrown out the window nearly every safeguard which has been developed over the centuries by our courts," Law School Dean Erwin N. Griswold told the Connecticut Bar Association yesterday. Thus, "instead of decrying the Fifth Amendment we may well feel satisfaction at the protection the Amendment has given to individual standing alone," he said in the Hartford address...
...Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a member of the Mormons' top policymaking body, the Council of the Twelve Apostles, voiced a plea "that regardless of the party you are affiliated with, you remember the standard the God of Heaven has given and use your influence to help safeguard the country and see that honest, good and wise men are elected to public office...
...this, there have been three noticeable reactions within the universities. First is the frequent use of the Fifth Amendment by professor when questioned about past activities. The discredit which this Constitutional safeguard has suffered is extremely unfortunate, for in the eyes of a great majority of the nation's population, its use is synonomous with the veiling of hidden guilt...