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...prepared to give up one iota of American sovereignty to a court that is controlled in part by the Soviets," said fiery A.B.A. Past President David F. Maxwell of Philadelphia, who called instead for "a court of free nations . . . where laws will be supported by Anglo-Saxon justice and not totalitarianism."*In rebuttal, the A.B.A.'s incoming president, Whitney North Seymour, 59, of New York, argued that the court's decisions during its 14-year history have shown it to be learned and impartial. The A.B.A.'s new President-elect John C. Satterfield of Mississippi...
...maritime power. Whenever he needed cash, he allowed Louis XIV to bribe him, but contrived to give little value for money. In 1670 Louis agreed to pay Charles ?160,000 to become a Catholic, but-knowing well that open conversion would cause civil war and wreck an Anglo-French alliance-he asked Charles to defer his avowal until "the state of his country's affairs" permitted. While Louis simmered, Charles deferred it for 15 years, until he was on his deathbed...
...only a little war, but in 1912 a young Anglo-Irishman named Joyce Gary was afraid that it might be the last, for the world was getting too civilized for war, or so it seemed. Only a few months out of Oxford, and hungry for adventure, he set off with a British Red Cross unit for the Balkans, where Turks and Montenegrins were doing their best to exterminate each other. It would be 30 years and several distinctly uncivilized wars later before Gary began to produce that superb string of novels (Mister Johnson, The Horse's Mouth) in which...
...Anglo-American relies upon personal interest to accomplish his ends, and gives free scope to the unguided strength and common sense of the people; the Russian centers all the authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude...
Wystan Hugh Auden is a chameleon among modern poets. He has moved from Marxism to Anglo-Catholicism, changed with startling ease from the gay garb of a tart poetaster to the grave robes of the searcher for ultimate truth. He often goes back over his poems and revises them to conform with his new sentiments. From some of his work, as his thinking turned increasingly conservative, he dropped scathing references to dons, capitalists and churchmen-for instance these lines written...