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...until he has some other means for protecting his rights. To establish a basis for the operation of international law is indeed a difficult job. There are many road-blocks to be removed--the right of self-determination (in cases of revolution) to be accepted by the Communist world, repeal of the Connelly amendment by the United States, recognition of Red China, etc. Adjustments must be made by both the East and the West. Throughout his turbulent existence, man has lived by the sword. War, today is not considered a very serious undertaking when we openly pledge to sacrifice...
Goldwater's final difficulty is that he underestimates the true conservatism of the American people, the unwillingness to abandon a program once it has been around for a while and is working fairly well. About the only "welfare" program the people have found repugnant enough in practice to repeal was prohibition...
Said Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, who will carry the brunt of the load in the Senate drive for repeal: "As much as some Americans may dislike it, the U.S. has been thrust into the center of world affairs. Either we move to strengthen the mechanisms of world peace -of which the World Court is a conspicuous example-or we continue to suffer increasingly the frustrations of a world in which there is no real peace...
...past-president, Frank Holman. 74, of Seattle, author and bankroller of a 32-page pro-Connally pamphlet that is being circulated to leaders of the 99,400-member association as well as to women's clubs, veterans' groups and editors around the nation. Dismissing the proponents of repeal as "internationalists" and "world government enthusiasts," Holman argues that "the Connally Reservation is necessary to protect the U.S. against a program of supernational supervision of its citizens," imposed by alien jurists who could make up rules as they went along because the body of international law is incomplete and indecisive...
Leader of the repeal forces is hardworking Charles Rhyne, 48, past president of the A.B.A. (TIME Cover, May 5, 1958), and chairman of the A.B.A.'s Special Committee on World Peace Through Law. His case rests on one powerful point: if the world is to avoid war it must turn, step by step, toward the rule of law which promises orderly settlement of disputes through the administration of international justice. Under the terms...