Mr. DOUGLAS EDWARDS: From Cartoff (ph) comes the verdict in the first war criminal trials of World War II.
Fifty years or so ago, shocked by the barbarities of the second world war, the would-be makers of a better world agreed on an ambitious bunch of conventions prohibiting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and then, for nearly half a century, did nothing to enforce them.
Accordingly, the U.S. has made clear that terrorists and their friends are the enemies of mankind, and that we are leading a war of the world's civilized people against them.
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However, rather than returning to the constitutional method of the Declaration of War, which can be given after the commencement of war if necessary (consider World War II) Congress chose to bypass declarations of war in favor of resolutions allowing wars.
One of the stories about war that has always haunted me is that of World War I soldiers fighting and dying as the clock ticked down to the war's end.
Mr. Roberts, a historian, is author most recently of "The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War" (Harper, 2011).
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The tribunal was the first international body for the prosecution of war crimes since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials held in the aftermath of World War II.
The language of war is more the world of men than women, as is Wall Street.
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With the outbreak of World War I the reputation of the Germanic gnome plummeted.
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Since the end of World War II two thirds of a century ago, federal spending has been stable at around 20% of GDP.
Companies are legally forced to hire a quota of the offspring of veterans of World War II or children of families with four or more.
The act also established the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which grew out of World War II era Office of Strategic Services and small post-war intelligence organizations.
The British film, directed and co-written by Nick Murphy, shows how the colossal losses of World War I led some of the bereaved to seek comfort in spiritualism.
Though London was heavily damaged by the bombings of World War II, vestiges of the city's 1800s architecture survive in quaint pubs, spooky alleyways and monkish courtyards ringed with Georgian features.
This 1955 novel, critics agree, distilled the experience of a generation, laying bare its hollow quest for meaning and purpose in the post-World War Two world of corporate business.
He says that the UK "is in the economic equivalent of war today" - and therefore the spirit of the World War II must be recreated in Whitehall.
Ms Riefenstahl, whose work included the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will, about the 1934 Nazi Party Nuremberg Rally and Olympia, glorifying the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, has twice been cleared of complicity with the Nazis by war crimes courts following the collapse of the Nazi regime at the end of World War II.
The ancient battle, Gandalf believes, is not over, but temporarily dormant, like the illusion of peace between World War I (in which Tolkien served) and World War II (during which the Lord of the Rings was written).
Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I and the beginning of our own time.
Franklin Roosevelt, who had served under Wilson, saw the onset of World War II as a vindication of Wilson's approach.
The fourth major transition is the respite from major interstate war that we have seen since the end of World War II.
And Western Europe needed a U.S. presence against the Soviet Union from the end of World War II to the end of the Cold War.
An anti-Fascist who resisted dictator Benito Mussolini, he was rewarded at the end of World War II with the job of liquidating the state-owned oil company.
Mr Coombe, who is now in his early 90s, was stationed in Burma at the end of World War II and is one of eight eye-witnesses to come forward.
Since the end of World War II the widespread use of these powerful sprays almost wiped out bed bugs, but they also took a terrible toll on human health and on species species including eagles and ospreys.
What Noda refers to euphemistically as a "socialist system" in the countryside has helped push Japan into what Moody's notes is the highest level of debt for any major economy since the end of World War II: 140% of GDP.
Among the handful of documents here from the period of World War II, a section of the archives still closed to scholars, is a 1942 letter from Jewish inmates of an Italian concentration camp, thanking Pope Pius XII for his support and gifts of clothing.
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Both the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations took high-handed actions that pre-cipitated and then deepened and prolonged the economic crisis that was battering both the U.S. and the rest of the world and made possible the rise of Nazism and the advent of World War II.
Empire at the end of World War I, and the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992.
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