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There was the sovereign state. Every delegate represented one, and, as a public official, was sworn to uphold its sovereignty...
...king nor a royalty," asserted Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on Italian History, in a discussion yesterday on the problems of post-war Italy, "and it is only a union of the businessmen, the remnants of the army, and the British and American forces of occupation that uphold the present regime...
...final roll-call vote the Communists lost. The convention voted 272-to-185 to uphold the 29-point report of the Canadian P.A.C., which in effect again endorsed the C.C.F...
...this cleavage was by no means absolute. The 1943-44 Court had agreed on most major matters: upholding the NLRB, picketing and price control; sustaining new and higher taxes, protecting civil liberties. The differences were over minor matters, often legalistic, and generally representing differences in legal approach. Broadly speaking, the Black school would usually uphold Congress, as representing the new will of the people; while the Frankfurter school would hold fast to previous law and hoary precedent. Not since May 1936 had the Supreme Court overturned a law of Congress...
...decide how far they will recognize the present Government when they are free. In the meantime, if improvements along democratic lines are to be made they cannot be dictated from outside, least of all dictated by one great power which is not now a democracy. For how can we uphold the principle of a strong and independent Poland, to which Russia is committed, if Russia alone is to decide unilaterally what constitutes a democratic Polish Government...