Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Korea in August. The American representative at Panmunjom, a Marine major general, signed a Communist-drafted document, confessing to a "criminal act" and to infringing upon North Korean sovereignty. The general then announced that "there was no criminal act or intentional infiltration." He acted, he said, "in the humanitarian interest of securing the release of these...
...Those people whose motivation is indeed humanitarian rather than ideological have a responsibility, then, to examine their consciences in relation to the inevitable tragic consequences of this war protest...
...came to the point where it would not be more difficult to travel from one part of Germany to the other than to travel from Western Germany to foreign countries, even foreign Communist countries. In spite of the political differences, I would like very much, not only in the humanitarian field but also in the cultural field, to develop contacts that would correspond with the fact that we have the same cultural heritage...
...flowing tribal robes. The guests ranged from British Economist Austin Robinson and French Geographer Jean Gottmann to American urbanists like Robert Wood of M.I.T. and Martin Meyerson, president of the University of Buffalo. Mingling easily among them all was Dox-iadis, a silvery fox of a man-academic, politician, humanitarian, man of influence...
Warren made an imprint on the court largely because of the strong moral direction that he imparted to it. A man of stern humanitarian ideals, he loomed on the bench as a kind of Old Testament lawgiver, who approached issues with a disarming simplicity. "You'd see this paterfamilias insisting on the justice of the black man's cause," noted Michael Meltsner, a young lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, who has argued before the Warren court. "Almost every question was directed toward justice, not technicalities...