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...SECRET SURRENDER, by Allen Dulles. The organized surrender of 1,000,000 German and Italian troops a week before V-E day is ably recounted by former CIA Chief Dulles, who was its chief engineer and certainly knows a good spy story...
Congress's power to punish utterances that obstruct military recruiting or war activities was upheld in Schenck v. U.S. (1919), when the Supreme Court sustained the World War I Espionage Acts. In Schenck, however, Justice Holmes also declared that such utterances can be punished only if they create a "clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree." Miller and his lawyers insist that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. They point out that all the information...
Though still on the books, guest statutes "contradict the spirit of the times." In Clark v. Clark, at least, New Hampshire holds that a driver's liability to his passengers shall be "determined by the local law of their common domicile, if at least this is the state from which they departed on their trip and that to which they intended to return." Which means that Mrs. Clark may now sue Mr. Clark under New Hampshire...
...rzburg, Neckermann worked in Berlin during the Nazi era, acquired for a bargain price a textile mail-order house belonging to a Jew who was forced to sell and flee. Neckermann joined the Nazi Party, did well selling uniforms to Hitler's armies during World War II. After V-E day, the Allies confiscated Neckermann's property and put him in jail for a year. He kept up his textile contacts and in 1950 set up business in a rented barracks at a refugee camp, where labor was especially cheap. He put out his first slim catalogue...
...Genius v. Vanity. After a stretch as a seminarian and a valet, Rousseau moved to Paris, where he lived as a music copyist. Somewhere along the line, tramping the road to Vincennes, he underwent a sort of religious experience, and concluded that revealing the truth about himself would reveal the truth to all other men. It cannot be said that he was very good at it, though the poetic cloud with which he haloed his life story is luminous to this...