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...justice," says one advocate of a world rule of law. And the peaceful settlement of disputes could come through a system of law, founded on what is common to the law of all communities. Says Rhyne: "The vital need for an adequate international system of law remains the greatest gap in the legal structure of civilization...
...approach toward filling that gap is through political organization, e.g., the United Nations. Yet the U.N., although valuable as a political forum, has been no conspicuous success in dispensing international justice, and its International Court of Justice has disposed of about one case a year for the last twelve years. An elaborate plan for strengthening the legal powers of the U.N. is found in World Peace Through World Law, a recently published book by Lawyers Grenville Clark and Louis B. Sohn. They urge revision of the U.N. Charter so as to provide for eventual total disarmament, an international police force...
Billy Graham set out this week to narrow the gap between the Golden and the pearly gates. He kicked off his six-week San Francisco evangelistic crusade at the 16,500-seat Cow Palace in a glow of promising statistics. The 1,175 participating ministers have reserved 250,000 seats for the crusade-more than in any city but Glasgow. Instead of the expected 2,500 volunteers for counselor training in the whole Bay area, a whopping 5,100 came...
...painter, like his counterpart, the writer, has a universe to face strictly on his own. All the inspiration and mentors in the world do not constitute a script or score and the challenge involved more than balances the opportunity. As is often the case with local literary attempts, the gap between aspiration and achievement is due, much of the time, to a basic inability to cope with the art's more fundamental and less romantic aspects, rather than to lack of capacity or imagination. The Adams House show, however, is encouraging in this respect. It reveals, more often than...
There is presently a broad gap between students aspiring to international careers and the agencies offering employment overseas, according to Peter W. Gross '58, Conference Coordinator. The conference proposes to bridge this gap by giving students information necessary for selecting and establishing careers in international fields...