Robert A. Taft: “Equal Justice under Law”

Glossary

• Anglo-Saxon reference to two of the Germanic tribes that settled in England during the Middle Ages; more generally, a term used to refer to the British American cultural heritage
• Dumbarton Oaks a mansion in Washington, D.C., where the United Nations was conceived and negotiated during the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, or more formally the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization
• ex post facto Latin for “after the fact,” referring to a law that retroactively makes an act a crime or otherwise changes its legal consequences
• Inter arma leges silent Latin for “in time of war the law is silent”
• Kuril Islands a string of islands that stretches northeast from Japan to Russia
• Moscow the capital of the Soviet Union, now of Russia
• Nuremberg German city where Nazi war criminals were tried after World War II
• Patrick Henry leader of the American Revolution, famous for his statement “Give me liberty or give me death.”
• reconversion conversion from a wartime to a peacetime economy
• San Francisco the California city that was the site of the San Francisco Conference, at which the United Nations was formally established
• Security Council the arm of the United Nations that votes on resolutions for maintaining security and peace
• Teheran the capital of Iran
• USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the Soviet Union