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...Last Rupee. India is the best example of the postwar turnabout. Here, over a century, Britain had poured in some ?550,000,000 of investments. Now most of the investments are gone, and brown-skinned men hold valid claims to millions Britain cannot...
...Turnabout. What not only surprised but shocked Californians about the deal was that Alden Roach had long preached that the prime need of West Coast industry was cheap steel. To get it, Roach had often implied that the West's dependency on Eastern steel had to be ended. But now Big Steel, which already controls 39% of West Coast steelmaking capacity, was to be fattened up on Alden Roach's own baby, the biggest independent fabricator west of the Rockies...
Postscript. This fanciful turnabout was answered last week by U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, in an address before the University of Buffalo. Jackson declared that the trial's fundamental justification lay in its attempt to outlaw aggressive war and to destroy "the old theory that international law bears on states and not on statesmen [shielded by] 'sovereignty.' . . ." He reasserted his belief that this interpretation was actually implicit in existing international law, which the Allies had merely strengthened. Said he: "At all events, whether they be regarded as an innovation or a codification, those principles are law today...
...turnabout was partly the result of onetime La Follette supporters flocking into the Democratic primary to vote for former Representative Howard McMurray, an ardent New Dealer. They had shied away from La Follette's isolationist record, his return to Republicanism and subsequent indorsement by Ohio's conservative Taft...
...ring et al. were rooting for the prosecution. They smiled and nodded every time their accuser, Robert H. Jackson, scored a point. The wizard who produced this strange turnabout was Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...