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	Frank Hague
		Hague realized that to raise the tax valuation and obtain the much-needed revenue for the city, he needed to place a cooperative governor in the state house to appoint new members to the tax board.
		Hague then advanced Norton's candidacy to represent his congressional district in the House of Representatives to which she successfully was elected for thirteen consecutive terms (1923-1949).
		Hague invoked a local anti-littering ordinance to deny the CIO a police permit to hold a public meeting and to prevent the labor union from distributing pamphlets explaining the rights of citizens to collective bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act.
	www.njcu.edu /programs/jchistory/Pages/H_Pages/Hague_Frank.htm (4145 words)

	House Armed Services Committee Report on Resolution to Require the Secretary of Defense to Provide Documents on ...
		Congress evidently thought it neither necessary nor appropriate to attempt to catalog every specific aspect of the use of the forces it was authorizing and every potential preexisting statutory limitation on the Executive Branch.
		Congress, however, has not expressed any disapproval of the Supreme Court's commonsense and plain-meaning interpretation of the AUMF in Hamdi.\4\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \4\ This understanding of the AUMF is consistent with Justice O'Connor's admonition that ``a state of war is not a blank check for the President,'' Hamdi, 542 U.S. at 536 (plurality opinion).
		Congress recognized at the time that the enactment of a statute purporting to eliminate the President's ability, even during peacetime, to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance to collect foreign intelligence was near or perhaps beyond the limit of Congress's Article I powers.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/2006_rpt/hrpt109-384.html (15120 words)

	Hague Congress (1948) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hague Congress was held in the Congress of Europe in Hague from 7th to 11th of May 1948 with 800 delegates participating from around Europe as well as observers from Canada and the United States.
		Important political figures such as Konrad Adenauer, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan, François Mitterrand, Paul-Henry Spaak, Albert Coppé and Altiero Spinelli took an active role in the congress and a call was launched for a political, economic and monetary Union of Europe.
		The Spanish statesman Salvador de Madariaga proposed the establishment of a College of Europe at the Congress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hague_Congress_(1948) (263 words)

	The Hague Congress
		For Jacques Delors, the first congress in The Hague "was one of enthusiasm, of the birth of a dream" (1).
		At the next Congress in The Hague, men and women from the entire continent will consequently consider how to transpose the founding values of integration, formulated 50 years ago, into the changes Europe is experiencing as this century draws to a close.
		The 1948 Congress was to inscribe The Hague in gilt letters in the annals of the European Movement.
	www.fortunecity.com /boozers/caledonian/53/hague.htm (3618 words)

	European Movement - History
		May 1948, 800 delegates from around Europe as well as observers from Canada and the United States gathered in The Hague, The Netherlands for the Congress of Europe.
		Congress of Europe, The Hague, 8-10 May 1998 Official Opening of the Congress By Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands
		Report by the Initiative Committee of the International European Movement with a view to preparation of the "Congress of Europe" to be held in The Hague on 8, 9 and 10 May 1998 on the 50th anniversary of the first Congress of Europe.
	www.europeanmovement.org /history.cfm (833 words)

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		Our Congress, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, brings together over 300 delegates from 45 member states, and is Europe's broadest forum for discussion of issues relating to local and regional democracy.
		The Congress has been officially authorised to "ensure that the principles of the European Charter of Local Self-Government are implemented", and urged "to step up its efforts to ensure that the principles of the Charter are effectively observed".
		Preparation of the reports is marked by ongoing dialogue between elected representatives and experts, and between the Congress and national associations and governments.
	www.ccre.org /docs/discours_van_staa_eng.doc (1600 words)

	Syria and the War in Palestine
		In this respect it is useful to view the 1948 war primarily as an inter-Arab struggle or an Arab civil war, and only secondarily as a war against Zionism and the Jews.
		When it entered Palestine on 15 May 1948, the Syrian army had only 10,000 officers and men and was unequipped to fight a war, which is the most telling indication that Quwwatli did not want and was not prepared to fight a war.
		By the end of January 1948, the Hashemite bloc and the Egyptian bloc composed of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Syria took formal shape.
	faculty-staff.ou.edu /L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/Syria_1948.htm (11172 words)

	Timeline 1948
		1948 Jan 7, Kenny Loggins, singer (and Messina-This is it, Footloose), was born in Everett, WA.
		1948 Nov 14, Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of England, was born.
		1948 Lyndon Johnson‘s nickname "Landslide Lyndon" was coined because of his slim victory in the 1948 primary election for the senate.
	www.timelines.ws /20thcent/1948.HTML (9809 words)

	Report from Board of Officers of the International Committee of Women For Permanent Peace, 4 Oct 1915
		It was reported that the Envoys from the International Congress of Women had visited the governments in London, the Hague, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Berne, Rome, Paris, the Havre, Copenhagen, Christiania, Stockholm and Petrograd.
		They went together to revisit the Government at the Hague and as immediate action was a factor in the situation decided to revisit the Governments of London, Berlin and Stockholm with a view to getting further information and conveying some of the information already received.
		Ramondt on her return to the Hague saw again the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister there and C. Macmillan on her return visited these two Ministers in company of Dr. Jacobs.
	www.binghamton.edu /womhist/hague/doc16.htm (1169 words)

	HISTORICAL EVENTS - 1945—1949 The pioneering phase - The European idea - The federalist congresses - The Hague - 'The ...
		The French newspaper Le Monde describes the significance of and the issues involved in the debates held during the European congress in The Hague from 7 to 10 May 1948.
		Invitation to attend the Congress of Europe in The Hague issued by Joseph Retinger (February 1948)
		Several aspirations voiced at the Hague Congress became reality in the following months: the European Centre for Culture (ECC), the College of Europe, the Assembly of the Council of Europe, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).
	www.ena.lu /europe/pioneering/hague-congress-monde-1948.htm (773 words)

	The Fence goes to the Hague / Refugees
		Not surprisingly, Rabkin was one of the prominent objectors to the convention that established the ICC in 1998, and supported the American decision not to sign it.
		Most of the petitions submitted to the High Court regarding the fence deal with the procedures for opening the gates in the fence or with expropriation of Palestinian lands for the construction of the fence, to the detriment of the lives of the Palestinian farmers who will be separated from their lands.
		Hundreds of thousands of 1948 refugees and their descendants are crammed into impoverished and often violent camps, some of which have grown into urban slums.
	www.aijac.org.au /updates/Jan-04/160104.html (3762 words)

	Proselytizing the World
		In 1948 another protocol was negotiated at Paris to create machinery for bringing new synthetic substances under the controls imposed by the 1931 Convention.
		But it soon became apparent that other nations were not going to compromise their sovereignty by submitting to a supranational Bureau of Narcotics, and gradually the drafts were toned down, so that some terms of the Single Convention as finally approved in 1961 are milder than the old provisions which they supplant.
		New substances can be added by streamlined procedures based on the 1948 protocol; reporting requirements are simplified and extended, and each contracting party must submit estimates of its legitimate requirements which thereupon form a basis for production quotas.
	www.druglibrary.org /special/king/dhu/dhu21.htm (5975 words)

	Presentation note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is no longer, as was the case in 1948, a matter of rebuilding a Europe destroyed by war, but of reconciling Europe with itself, in its geographical integrity, and with its citizens.
		To this effect, it has decided to invite to The Hague representatives of European and national institutions, regional and local authorities, women and men from the spheres of the economy, labour, youth, culture and activists for non-governmental organizations representing civil society.
		One month before the Congress, the documents drawn up by the different working groups in preparation for the three workshops, as well as the report being drafted by the European Movement's Initiative Committee on the objectives of European integration, will be made available to all participants, in particular on our Internet site.
	www.eurit.it /Eurplace/thehague.congress/note1.html (848 words)

	European Union - Elitewiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In October 1948, the UEM joined with other continental organizations to form the European Movement and Churchill was named one of the Presidents of Honor, along with France’s Leon Blum, Belgium’s Paul-Henri Spaak and Italy’s Alcide De Gasperi.
		Retinger served as the backstage director and gatekeeper of the critically important Congress of Europe in May 1948 at The Hague.
		The Congress gave birth to the Council of Europe, which held its first session in Strasbourg in August of 1949.
	www.global-elite.org /index.php?title=European_Union (2954 words)

	Dr. Horowitz - Aids, Ebola, Vaccines, Tetrahedron.com
		Largely unbeknown to the US Congress at that time, a provision was inserted into the Homeland Security Act granting immunity to drug makers from product liability law suits.
		This is but a short synopsis of the crimes of war and crimes against humanity committed by the accused and of their strategy to abuse these war crimes to continue crimes of even larger magnitude, such as cementing their global "business with disease".
		The ICC in The Hague is the court governed by international law addressing these urgent issues.
	www.healingcelebrations.com /hague.htm (9046 words)

	Records of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, DG 043, Historical Introduction, Swarthmore College ...
		This congress adopted a program similar to the platform of the WPP and established the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (ICWPP), made up of not more than five women from each of the twelve nations represented at the congress.
		The 1915 Congress at The Hague had voted to hold a second international congress of women at the end of the war at the same time as the negotiations to frame the terms of peace.
		When the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were made public, the women at the Zurich congress passed a number of resolutions pointing out the dangers to permanent peace contained in the provisions of the treaty.
	www.swarthmore.edu /library/peace/DG026-050/dg043wilpf/history.htm (3691 words)

	Harry Truman 1948 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That is what the Republican Congress thought you ought to do, and that is the same Congress that the Republican candidate for President said did a good job.
		If two thirds of the people stay at home again on election day as they did in 1946, and if we get another Republican Congress like the 80th Congress, it will be controlled by the same men who controlled that 80th Congress-the Tabers, and the Tafts, the Martins and the Hallecks would be the bosses.
		One of the first acts of the Republican 80th Congress was to take steps to destroy the Wagner Act.
	www.politicsnj.com /truman1948.htm (5067 words)

	Rogues’ Gallery of EU Founders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the 1948 Hague Congress of Europe, Churchill, as “President of Honor,” delivered the opening address, in the presence of Princess (later Queen) Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.
		He was primarily responsible for drawing up the list of the 800 dignitaries attending the Congress, which included 18 ex-prime ministers and 28 ex-foreign ministers.
		Monnet, a lifelong socialist, was, along with Joseph Retinger, one of the top behind-the-scenes managers of the 1948 Congress of Europe at The Hague.
	www.stoptheftaa.org /artman/publish/printer_135.shtml (2754 words)

	Researching Public International Law
		While that part of the governmental entity charged with foreign relations will have the lead role in developing international law for the country, in practice each subunit of a government has some ability to create what can be recognized as International Law.
		It was prepared for presentation at the famous Hague Academy of International Law and was originally printed in 1989 Recueil des Cours, IV, pp 9-416 (JX1295.H1 1923c).
		The current electronic form of these texts for the last three Congresses can be found in the GPO website at http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/cong006.html.
	www.law.columbia.edu /library/Research_Guides/internat_law/pubint (9461 words)

	The International Peace Movement
		Though not exclusively pacifist, these societies were greatly influenced by Quakers and other pacifists, as were the series of international peace congresses which the societies began to hold from 1843.
		The main emphasis was on arbitration between states as an alternative to war, but there was increasing concern about militarist influences on the young tending towards acceptance of war as not merely unavoidable but even 'noble'.
		A resolution to establish the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and, in the wake of this decision, to build a 'Temple of Peace' to accommodate this institution changed the face of pacifism for good.
	www.ppl.nl /100years/peacemovement (727 words)

	This Blessed Plot
		The first Congress of Europe met in The Hague on 7 May 1948, with Churchill as the keynote speaker.
		For many of those present at the Hague assembly, their project was a matter of life or death.
		As a result, his speech at The Hague, which was regarded at the time as an historic address, could in due course be more exactly seen as a source-book for the confusion he created, simultaneously giving succour to the federalists while intending to do no such thing.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/y/young-blessed.html (8342 words)

	The Slovaks in America (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		Isaac Ferdinand Sarosi (also spelled Sarissky, Scharossy, Saarossy, Sarossy, Saroschi, and Sarossi) was the first known immigrant from what is now Slovakia; it is not clear what his mother tongue was.
		Courtesy: Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The U.S. Navy commissioned the USS Durik, a warship named in honor of Joseph Edward Durik, a Slovak serviceman from Southwest, Pennsylvania, who had died as a result of an accidental torpedo firing on the USS Meredith.
		Joseph M. Gaydos, born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served for 24 years.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/imsk/slovakia.html (2468 words)

	EUROPA - The EU at a glance - The History of the European Union - 1948 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		EUROPA - The EU at a glance - The History of the European Union - 1948
		Fostered by the International Coordination of Movements for the Unification of Europe Committee, the Europe Congress meets in The Hague, The Netherlands.
		They also advise the adoption of a Human Rights Charter and, to ensure the respect of such charter, the creation of a Court of Justice.
	europa.eu /abc/history/1948/index_en.htm (143 words)

	Council of Europe - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Council of Europe was organized as the Hague Congress on May 7, 1948, five years following the liberation of Europe.
		All these organisations were to combine to form the International Committee of the Movements for European Unity.
		Its first act was to organise the Hague Congress, on 7 May 1948, remembered as The Congress of Europe."[3]
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Council_of_Europe (277 words)

	The Fox International Fellowships
		Duranti’s project focuses on 1948 as a critical year in the transition of European state sovereignty from individual nation states to some greater entity of ‘Europe’.
		In 1948 anti-American federalists in Europe made their last plea for Cold War neutrality while anti-Soviet federalists launched their proposals for regional military integration against the communist threat.
		Duranti’s research also underscores the role of the meeting of the Hague Congress of Federalist Movements in May of that year as critical to the creation of European Court of Human Rights, which has been a largely successful supranational mechanism for the protection of individual liberties.
	www.yale.edu /macmillan/fif/currentfellows.html (5018 words)

	The EEA Agreement and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thus, for the purposes of our discussion, it is important that the ECHR is not merely an international instrument to which all European states have acceded but should prove, when placed in the historical context, to be a major instrument of European integration which, in a broader sense, includes EFTA states.
		The high hopes of the European Federalists, particularly as expressed at the Hague Congress of the `European Movement' in 1948 for creating a European Union with a federal structure in the wake of the setting up of the Council of Europe, were dashed in the late 1940s.
		However, the call by the Hague Congress for a European Charter of Human Rights, which was to use collective machinery for the protection of individual rights as a basis for starting a process leading to the political unification of Western Europe,
	www.ejil.org /journal/Vol3/No2/art7-02.html (1245 words)

	A Chronological History Of The New World Order - Conspiracy Cafe Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		1948 -- Walden II by behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner proposes "a perfect society or new and more perfect order" in which children are reared by the State, rather than by their parents and are trained from birth to demonstrate only desirable behavior and characteristics.
		1948 -- The preliminary draft of a World Constitution is published by U.S. educators advocating regional federation on the way toward world federation or government with England incorporated into a European federation.
		When the Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution was published in 1948, public reaction varied from unalloyed admiration to excoriating criticism.
	www.conspiracycafe.net /board_forum/index.php?showtopic=56 (9441 words)

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