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...only one who thought so. From Washington, New York Timesman James B. Reston reported that Canada had already prepared recommendations to alter the Dumbarton Oaks formula. As that formula now stands, all peace-loving nations outside the Big Five are equally eligible for places on the Security Council. But in any future war Canada would obviously have to carry a heavier load than a nation like Panama. The Canadians, wrote Reston, were asking that representation on the Security Council, other than the Big Five, be restricted to countries with the will and power to put forces at the Council...
...cause of the well-bred walkout was reportedly the Viceroy's intention to modernize the administration of India's many petty states* in line with "changing times." Sensing a slight to their sovereignty, the princes were indicating their alarm at the "tendency to alter the States' relationship with the Crown." Some of the ruffled rulers even talked of "browbeating." Most sulked in their, princely mahals (palaces...
...most important legal decision for lizards in 200,000,000 years has been handed down by a South African court. In Johannesburg Isaac Alter, owner of a curio shop, was haled before a court because two of his native (Negro) employes had separated 30 live lizards from their valuable skins. Cruelty to animals is an offense under South African law. But the case raised a nice point of biolegalism: is a lizard an animal? Ruled Magistrate C. J. Humphreys: "An animal is a sentient being which takes food in a digestive cavity, has the power of voluntary motion...
...Archbishops Edward Mooney of Detroit, Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Francis J. Spellman of New York, John T. McNicholas of Cincinnati, John Gregory Murray of St. Paul, John J. Mitty of San Francisco, Joseph F. Rummel of New Orleans; Bishops John F. Noll of Fort Wayne, Karl J. Alter of Toledo, James H. Ryan of Omaha...
...Republicans with non-isolationist or liberal record. In New York, to the nation's delight, down went rabid anti-Roosevelt isolationist Hamilton Fish, after 24 years in Congress. His successor: liberal Augustus W. Bennet, 47, Newburgh lawyer. Another surprise was the defeat of the Chicago Tribune's alter ego, isolationist stalwart Stephen A. Day. Against Day and the odds, intelligent, serious Emily Taft Douglas, wife of a Chicago economics professor (now in the Marines) won her first try at big-time politics. Rednecked Marine Colonel Melvin J. Maas of Minnesota, another isolationist, lost...