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Said he: "I distinctly specified that once the country was cleared of the Nazis it should choose its own constitution. One thing certain is that the people will uphold the principles of democracy." With this addendum, General de Gaulle's statement was a strong bid for the Free French movement to be recognized as the custodian of French democratic ambitions. In France, Pierre Laval had just publicly declared what everyone knew: "I hope for German victory." He did not publicly admit, as he has privately, that it was to save his own oily skin, but piously attributed his hope...
...Washington last week Mike Elizalde took an oath to uphold the Philippine Constitution as Minister without Portfolio in President Quezon's Cabinet. Thus he became in effect, the Philippine Commonwealth's Government in Exile. Of Minister Elizalde's mother and three brothers, now presumably prisoners in the hard little hands of the Japs, there was still no word...
Bold Henry Ford once lashed out. He distributed pamphlets appealing to his men not to join a union. The NLRB cracked down on him, although a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later declined to uphold the board...
...Power Co., charging that the company had appealed to its employes in bulletins and speeches "to bargain . . . without the intervention of any 'outside' union," had furthermore encouraged an "employer-dominated union," and ordered the company to stop "unfair labor practices." The Circuit Court of Appeals refused to uphold the order. NLRB took the case to the Supreme Court...
...Antigua had formerly been the meeting place of the Parliament of Basque Senators. They knew of the ancient oak in its courtyard--time honored symbol of the free Basques--but they marveled not that Ferdinand and Isabella in 1476, and Charles the Fifth again in 1526, had sworn to uphold the Basque Fueros under its overspreading canopy...