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Hanging is an old Anglo-Saxon custom. In the 13th century, punishment by death, in forms varying from the headsman's ax to the witch's pyre, was imposed as a deterrent for virtually every crime on the books. More than five centuries later, there were still some 200 crimes (including poaching) punishable by death in England. Children as young as seven were hanged. The first sweeping move toward clemency was not made until 1835, when these 200 mortal crimes were cut to four -high treason, murder, piracy, and setting fire to the royal dockyards and arsenals...
Most of the 2,500,000 party members and 16 million sympathizers in Western Europe, concludes Wolin, are in France and Italy. For this, Wolin offers one electoral explanation: "In the strong Scandinavian democracies, and especially under the Anglo-Saxon two-party system, disaffection swings public opinion to the main opposition party; in weak democracies, especially under the system of proportional representation, it can benefit Communist parties...
...referring to Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, the defendants in the Till case) are convicted of murder...where under the shining sun is the land of the free and the home of the brave?" Or more inclusive is the statement: "Evry last Anglo-Saxon one of you men in this jury has the courage to set those men free...
Speaking last night in Longfellow's Alumni Lecture Room, Siegfried stated that the civilization of Europe, on the other hand, possesses a unique element of quality, combining Mediterranean ideals of individualism with the Anglo-Saxon element. The Mediterranean influence, he explained, is largely absent from the "character of the United States...
...upon the quality and acuteness of the mind, Siegfried said. "People of these lands see deeply into things as they actually are, not as we would desire them to be," he "But these countries," he continued, "have not been transformed by the Industrial Revolution, and, in contrast to Anglo-Saxon peoples, their economy is still based upon individual producers such as the small farmer and the vine-yard owner...