Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moslem League to reach a common ground which would give India internal peace with her freedom. Last week, despite the differences, the Moslem League rose to the defense of the Congress and answered the White Paper. The League's paper, Dawn, remarked that it was not fair to present one side of the case while the defendant was held silent behind bars. "For the Viceroy to be both prosecutor and judge carries its own commentary...
Field Marshal Smuts is Prime Minister of a country split into sharp oppositions: pro-war and antiwar, pro-British and anti-British, 8,000,000 underprivileged natives and 2,000,000 privileged whites. Well aware was Jan Smuts that his few fair-minded concessions to South Africa's colored majority could and would be used to make votes against his Government. Last week he gravely admitted: "As Commander in Chief I have been disgraced by some of my soldiers. This is a matter of first-class importance to the country. I will not allow such things to happen again...
...always be possible or desirable to reassert all the 1933 boundaries, especially where they may have been set aside by subsequent votes of self-determination or where they may have become clearly impracticable. Thus, Germany should keep the Saar Territory which it recovered in 1935 by a free and fair plebiscite and with the blessing of the League of Nations. Russia will keep the "Russian" territories noted above which she occupied in 1939-40, some of which were clearly too small and weak for an independent existence and voted (under pressure, to be sure) to become part of the Soviet...
Brightest spot at the Toy Fair was the game business. Less harried by shortages than the toy industry, the game industry is doing more business than ever before. It is riding an Army & Navy boom: practically every serviceman's kit includes a pack of cards, a checker board or a backgammon set, and the U.S. Army recently ordered 1,500,000 dice at one clip...
...professional choruses "to be made up by their vigor . . . their driving energy . . . their sincere desire to please 'Koussy' and the audience." The music itself is angular, rough, forceful, enthusiastic. Particular attention and praise also should be called to the plaintive woodwin solos at the close of "Look Down, Fair Moon," and the God knows-how-many voice orchestral fugue opening the "Song of the Banner...