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Julian's announcement indicates that no long postponement is intended. Any date during the summer is possible, however, since Judge Bailey Aldrich '28, who will try the case, will not take the usual summer recess...
Government attorneys have until May 14 to decide whether they will bring Furry to trial. Since McCarthy's withdrawal appears final (Judge Aldrich is not likely to respond to the Senator's attack), the government will have to do without his possibly crucial testimony. The prospect that Furry may never be tried is stronger than ever...
...caustic treatment received by the Senator at the hands of Kamin's attorneys last fall, and Judge Aldrich's ruling that McCarthy had clearly overstepped the legal authority of the Government Operations Committee he headed in 1953-54, have already been discussed at length in this newspaper. What has not been discussed, since it only appears through re-reading Aldrich's decision, is that the Judge chose to believe McCarthy on small points and completely disagreed with him on large ones...
...order to reach his decision in Kamin's case Aldrich had to examine McCarthy's statement that his committee had been investigating, not private industry, but the operation of government security regulations. After studying the testimony of the other members of McCarthy's investigating group and the content of McCarthy's hearings, the Judge ruled the Senator's contention "entirely insubstantial...
McCarthy also indicated he thought Furry's case a lost cause, at least in Judge Aldrich's "kangaroo court." Furry's case is so similar to Kamin's that the Aldrich opinion acquitting Kamin would probably serve as the basis for a Furry acquittal. McCarthy probably realized this in January, when he made his first attack on Aldrich...