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...Hitlerism. The big lesson of Nürnberg, he told a New York lawyers' meeting last week, was that Hitler doomed himself when he exiled scientists, suppressed information and halted intellectual progress. Why not, asked Jackson, in effect, let the Russians, who are making the same mistake, wither in their own stupidity? Said...
...line with Marxian theory, Berman said, the Russians tried to do away with law until well in the 1930's in hopes that law would not be necessary. In 1936 the Soviets realized, he went on, that the state would not wither away, and a legal system was demanded...
...such action would fall miserably short of its goal in the long run. Israel would not wither and die. Instead, the new state would cast about for allies, and finding Soviet Russia eager to expand its sphere of influence, would accept Russian economic and military aid. With this rapprochement between Israel and the Soviet completed, American and British statesmen could congratulate themselves on moving their enemy some 800 miles closer to the Suez Canal...
...weapons for secret warfare exist. That I am competent to assure you . . . In a secret war the country under attack might wither as a nation, without knowing it had even been sick . . . Those who watch vital statistics might discover a suspicious increase in infant mortality-for the year ending a year ago. New pests would appear that survived the usual sprays. Cattle would develop diseases the county agents had never seen...
...Club began to wither after the successful '38-39 season and went into a serious decline which led to its virtual disappearance during the War. Under the leadership of Nicholas Van Slyck '46, however, the group made a vigorous and successful comeback beginning in January 1946 with Assistant Professor Irving Fine '37 as faculty adviser and conductor...