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DENVER, COLO., SUNDAY'
World Bill
Of Rights Is
Offered U. N.
Noted Committee
Makes Thoro Study
PROPOSED WORLD
BILL OF RIGHTS
HSERE is a. epitosined summary of the
proposed World Bill of Rights drawn
up by the Amorica Law Iastitnte:
-Th first five articles insure freedom
ofreligion, opinion, speech, the right
of assembly and 'the right to form a.os-
ciations.
2 The sixth insures the citizen against
wrongful interference with his home,
property and reputation.
Th severnth, eighth and.ninth articles
insure a man fair trial.
4-The tenth insures , a man's right to
property. This, it is. pointed. out,
should be acceptable to Russia. Her con-
stitution declares only that production
goods-equipment needed to manufacture
other good-cannot be privately owned.
5 Articles 11 to 15 insure the right to an
educatsn, to work, reasonable condi-
tions of work, adequate housing and food
and social security.
6The IA three articles mention a citi-
6 zen's relation to his government-his
right to take part in it, his right to protee-
tion from discrimination under the law and
his obligation to a democratic state not to
abuse his rights.
By Sigrid Arne.
W TASHflfGTON-(AP)-T e Unit-
ed Nations, in writing rules for
themselves, seem to be taking the
same road which the fathers of the Amer-
icoan constitution traveled.
The Americans wrote a constitution which
sounded like the answer to the common man's
prayer the world over. But they quickly found
it had a bole in it big
enough for several men
on horseback. It failed
to name the specific If,
rights which the coin
mon man could exp ect.
So the bill of rights
woo added.- That's the
section which says you
hove a right iaici by ,
jury, that you can
choose yrour own reli-
gione d so on.' C
Nowthe Ulted Na- Wi. D e i
tigni hi written a charter. It says in eight
oeearate& serheliw and. in variolfa way£s that t hp ]
4dietr Wlam respefr Lewss iinihsd
BUt itfails o name he rigbts. A demand
to noamo them is burgeoning up from all over
the world.
fromtimanionnations.
Studied WorldCosiuon.t
The moot detailed and studious effort to
write suc a bill of rights has ome from the
American Law institute in Philadelobia. Ito
director, W~illiam Draper Lewis, lice guided at
commmittee of twenty-five internationl lewyero
from many nations. r , s
The work Stated in 1041 when Warren A.
Seavey, a Harvard low professor, proposed
that such a job be dons. Money woo given by '
the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, the American Philosophical society And fl
the Commonwealth club.
liy thr spring of '42 a committee of lawyers
was collected which represented, in addition
to the United States, the cultures of the Arabic, P,
British, Canadian, Chinese, French, pre-Nazi ii
Cermony, Italian, Indian, Latin Aeiai
Polish, Soviet $Ruceia and Spanish peoples. As
The-group collected the constitutions of the
world, broke them down r hu n
rights they r6ogn a bill
of rights which ta~
what the world wilf cet
A 'Bill for American Republics.
This bill was sent to all the dipiomatilc mi-
sicns in Washington for study of their govern-
ments. It was circulated at San Feancioo
when the United Nations met and at their
London meeting.
Another bill of rights was written by the
American republics at their Mexico City meet-
Ing loot year. A final draft will be presented
at the next meeting, in December. If it is
adopted then it will be forwarded to the home
governments for ratifleotiso.
(In the same manner, any United Nations
bill ofrights would have to be ratified by the
separate governsments.)
At the February meeting of the Anglo-
,American Caribbean commission a bill of rights
w.ssuggested for that area by the chairman
of the American delegation, Charles Taussig.
One human right-freedom of the press-ic
so important to many nations that at London
the Philippines proposed a special conference
to adopt it. Naturally the United States agrees.
Why the fuss about esential human rights?
Eighteen Human Rights REssential.
That was the first thing Hitler and the Ger-
mane destroyed when they started building
their war machine.
The united States br issued a blt hook cc-
esinog Argentina of about the same thing-at
a time when Argentina is voting the largest
military budget. in its history-and a some-
what similar document on Spain.
What human rights does the Lewis commit-
tee consider essential?
There are eighteen, simply written. They
go beyond the American bill of rights. The
committee found that several nations are
ahead of the United States when it comes to
rights backed by the constitution. For exam-
ple, the right to education, is found in forty
constitutions and twenty-seven contain the
right to social security. The United States,
thru laws, gives its citizens both advantages,
but they are not a constitutional right.
The major difficulties facing a world bill of
rights are listed by John R. Ellingston of New
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