The commitment to international agreements is embodied, it's found in the U.S. Constitution. Article Six of the U.S. Constitution provides that treaties of the United States are part of the supreme law of the land along with the constitution itself and laws passed by Congress. Well, the US government certainly has not been acting in recent years as if treaties were part of the supreme law of the land.

We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead.

All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl.

Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!

Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.