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...work with, brusquely proposed to remedy that deficiency by making law to suit the case. Said he: ". . . International law as taught in the 19th and the early . . . 20th Century generally declared that war-making was not illegal and no crime at law. ... Unless we are prepared to abandon every principle of growth for international law, we cannot deny that our own day has its right to institute customs and to conclude agreements that will themselves become sources of a newer and strengthened international...
...many English-speaking Chinese girls, mostly from Hongkong, Shanghai and Tientsin. They have been brought up under Western influences. They like to dance, date boys, kid around. But when they dated U.S. soldiers, Chungking confused them with the jeep girls who ply their trade with great zest and professional abandon...
...hard for the recognition of "regionalism" at San Francisco. But such men as Brazil's Velloso or Cuba's Belt were not enemies of world organization. Their nations had relied so long upon the U.S. for their fundamental security that they could no more bring themselves to abandon this shield than the U.S. Congress could bring itself to shift its main reliance from the Army and the Fleet to the Security Council...
...Japanese suicide planes crash-dived the destroyer off Okinawa. A bomb jammed the rudder, and the ship heeled in a sitting-duck circle. Flaming gasoline billowed over the decks, burning gunners strapped to their seats. Said Commander Frederick J. Becton: "I'll never abandon ship as long as a gun will fire...
This week, the eastern teams go west-where the fences are farther away, and not even the Giants themselves expect to clout with such abandon. Back in their own backyard, the westerners hope that both the law of averages and the experts' pre-season predictions will start catching up with them...