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...Administration," these checks and balances were upset by the expansion of federal power, both as a result of war and of "the various infections of socialism." One kind of balance was upset, for example, by "unrestrained presidential actions" that produced such highhanded executive agreements as Yalta and Teheran. "Our tacit alliance with Soviet Russia spread Communism over the earth...
...regiment be executed. But odd things have been happening all along the Western front. For one thing, the Germans seem to know about the mutiny in advance, yet fail to attack when the French quit. In fact, the Germans, the French, the Americans and the British, as though by tacit agreement, stop all fighting except for token, scattered artillery fire. In the midst of it all, a German general flies over to discuss the crisis with the Allied commanders, to see to it that the war of the generals, the statesmen and the profiteers goes on in spite...
Recognized Phantoms. When the West broke off in disgust for "a day of grace," the Communists baited the trap a little: Molotov agreed that three separate armistice commissions could be formed. This meant that France would have to accord tacit recognition to the phantom Communist regimes of Laos and Cambodia as members of the armistice commissions, but the hungry French called it progress. The U.S. diagnosis:"This session got nowhere...
...Stanislaus A. Szurek, after a ten-year study. Their explanation: in such cases the parents have not been able to resolve their own antisocial impulses, so they cannot deal firmly with their children's. In fact, they get vicarious satisfaction from them. The result is tacit approval and implied encouragement of the budding delinquent...
...revolt was forming near Cap-Haitien, under an ambitious politico named Guillaume Sam. Admiral William B. Caperton, U.S.N., on the U.S.S. Washington, met Sam unofficially and offered him tacit support, urgently warning Sam not to "loot or burn down the cities." But once in office, Sam balked at signing a treaty for U.S. occupation of Haiti. Instead, he jailed and massacred 167 suspected revolutionaries-then panicked and fled for asylum to the French legation. A raging mob broke into the building, found Sam hiding under a bed, dragged him out, literally tore him limb from limb, and paraded through Port...