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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...certainly an incredible sign of the times when such value is placed on the life of one such person as Chessman. The hue and cry that has blasted up over the fate of one who is little more than a mad dog, by nations all over the world whose all too recent pasts produced no protest over the torture and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of innocents-leaves one pretty disgusted at the state of affairs. Has sensationalism so completely taken over in the world that we have so quickly forgotten the hateful, drawn-out agonies of the Jews...
Does Soviet Russia recognize international law? Rarely. It has never accepted the jurisdiction of the World Court. It was one of the few major nations that declined to sign the 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, which says "every state has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory." It has questioned whether any treaty with a capitalist nation is binding on a Communist country. At its best, the body of international law is incomplete, inconsistent-and sometimes incomprehensible. But the U.S. has pledged to support and contribute to a world rule of law. The challenge...
...Unpleasant Facts. Nikita finally subsided. Ike listened with no visible sign of anger. When his turn came to speak, he rejected the Soviet ultimatum, but came surprisingly close to apologizing for the U-2 incident. Khrushchev, he said, "alleges that the U.S. has, through official statements, threatened continued overflights . . . The U.S. has made no such threat. Neither I nor my Government has intended any ... In point of fact, these flights were suspended after the recent incident and are not to be resumed. Accordingly, this cannot be the issue...
...Rafael Leonidas Trujillo has not got any more adroit in his rough ways. His misdeeds have only become more conspicuous. Last week Trujillo angrily demanded the removal of a U.S. embassy officer for "conveying certain material derogatory to the Dominican Republic to a British newspaperman." The U.S., as a sign of Washington's distaste for Trujillo, seized the occasion to recall Ambassador Joseph Farland for an indefinite time. And as separate evidences of their displeasure with the dictator's methods, Colombia and Peru last week severed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic...
...Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield. A curious novel in which the astrological notions of an old Polish countess are mixed with exuberant descriptions of Mexico's sights and sounds; the result, happily, is a triumph of Mexico over metaphysics...