Word: warrenisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, in the General Assembly's Political Committee, Vishinsky again drummed away at his favorite theme-"Western Germany is about to be used as ... a springboard for a new aggression on the Soviet Union." When he had quieted down, the U.S.'s Warren Austin dramatically delivered the West's answer to Vishinsky. It was a sweeping Anglo-American resolution on "Essentials of Peace." Among other things, its twelve points would pledge all U.N. members not to use force or the threat of force in ways contrary to the U.N. charter; to refrain from fomenting civil strife...
...Wirt A. Warren, a mild-mannered physician with a good practice in Wichita, Kans., sat down and wrote a letter to the Department of Justice in Washington. "This will inform you," he wrote, "that I am not obeying and do not intend to obey . . . that portion of the [Selective Service] act ... providing a penalty for knowingly counseling . . . evasion of registration or service . . . The act is a law which I feel morally bound to break...
...deliberately advised his stepson to refuse to register, he said, and had offered him money to skip to Canada or Mexico. The stepson disregarded the advice and on his 18th birthday registered. But 40-year-old Wirt Warren, a Unitarian and a Socialist who had been drafted as a conscientious objector in World War II, was plainly inviting the U.S. to make something of it anyway...
...Government did. Dr. Warren was convicted last April by a federal jury in Wichita and sentenced to two years in prison. He appealed, arguing that he had acted within the freedom of speech and religion guaranties of the Bill of Rights...
Last week the three judges of the U.S. tenth circuit court of appeals at Omaha unanimously turned down Dr. Warren's appeal, ruled that if the U.S. Congress has the power to raise armies-which it does-it also has "power to say who shall serve in them and in what way . . . The constitutional guaranties of personal liberty are not always absolutes . . . [Dr. Warren violated the law] under his asserted philosophy that he had a right to disobey a Federal law which he believed to be detrimental to mankind. A person may not decide to himself whether...