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...week's end, code machines chattered as the diplomats took counsel. There was little enthusiasm for an Indonesian proposal that the Colombo powers mediate (too clumsy) or for another Geneva-type conference (the U.S. disapproved). By default, hopes centered on Jawaharlal Nehru. The question was whether his intervention would do more harm than good. He was insisting that Red China's ultimate right to Formosa must be recognized first, but had reportedly conceded, at the urging of Commonwealth colleagues, that Formosa might be granted 20 years of interim independence under a U.N. mandate. Vastly relishing his role, Nehru...
French justice, based on the Napoleonic Code, has long been viewed with cynicism by its friends and alarm by disciples of Anglo-Saxon procedures. "The Code exists to protect society from the criminal, not to protect the criminal from judicial error," explains one French expert. "We run our courts to convict the guilty, not to acquit the innocent." Last week the case of a Nantes stevedore, only the most recent of a series of setbacks of justice, touched off a storm of indignation...
...convicts were polite but adamant. They faced the com mittee across a table, set up with a pad and pencil as if for a board-of-directors meeting. They served coffee to the committeemen, talked at length of their hopeless futures, the rigid Massachusetts penal code, the miserable living conditions in Cherry Hill (one of the committeemen, Editor Erwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, was shut for a few min utes in one of the granite solitary cells -to see how it felt). At the second meeting, the following afternoon, the tensions mounted. The committee agreed...
...marry her deceased husband's brother? Leviticus says no, Deuteronomy says yes (Leviticus 20: 21; Deuteronomy 25:5)." Knowledge Is Virtue. An unswerving atheist, Russell is convinced that all faiths do harm." He defines faith as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence." The code of ethics with which Russell would like to supplant the traditional code ironically demands a good deal of faith. The concepts of good and "bad " says Russell, should replace those of "right" and "wrong." A good act would be one in which the "intrinsic value to the individual is most...
Died. The Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord, S.J., 66, nationally known Roman Catholic pamphleteer, writer of religious songs (Mother Beloved, For Christ the King), national organizer (in 1925) and director of the Sodality of Our Lady (membership: 2,000,000 plus), producer (in 1929) of the strict movie production code for Hollywood's Hays Office; of cancer; in St. Louis...