Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free speech and free press rests on duty of a man to his thought and to his social existence, when this duty is ignored or rejected-as it is rejected when the issuer is a liar, an editorial prostitute whose political judgments can be bought, a malicious inflamer of unjust hatred-the ground for his claim of right is abandoned." Prosecution of such betrayers of freedom might be awkward, he conceded, "but the first step toward dealing with them is to recognize that the ground upon which they could make a claim of right is gone; they have forfeited...
...British friend lent him Count Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You. The Russian Christian's doctrine of nonviolent resistance to unjust rule gripped the Hindu lawyer's mind. "Young birds," wrote Tolstoy, ". . . know very well when there is no longer room for them in the eggs. ... A man who has outgrown the State can no more be coerced into submission to its laws than can the fledgling be made to re-enter its shell...
Flirtation Abandoned? Russia abandoned (for the time being) her flirtation with the Arab states, smothered the last Arab hope for an immediate victory. "It would be unjust," said Andrei Gromyko, "not to take [Zionist aspirations] into account." Then he proposed partition of Palestine (which Arabs have unanimously opposed) as one possible solution of the Palestine problem. Russia, in effect, jumped up on the fence with Britain and the U.S. On Palestine, where big-power rivalry (always in the background) had not yet been clearly defined, the U.N. at last was able to take almost unanimous action. The General Assembly voted...
...less than two years since the end of the war the bi-partisan dream of Wendell Willkie's one world and Franklin Roosevelt's four freedoms has been shattered. To place the complete blame for the demise of this dream on the present administration would be an unjust indictment. Other powers in the world today, notably the Soviet Union and Great Britain, have consistently followed a program of self interest. However, the power of the atom, and the vastness of American industrial wealth place the United States in a unique position. This nation alone can afford to gamble...
...cheering was a strong hint that increases in passenger and mail rates might be in the offing. CABoss Landis sternly warned that "management inefficiency" would not be underwritten by subsidies or higher rates. But at week's end he ordered an investigation to see if current rates are "unjust or unreasonable...