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...hand. He put aside his scheduled talk, and attacked the Alliance: "Let's keep the record straight. We, too, find home-grown communism as odious as home-grown fascism. . . . [But we do not] intend to be misled by the familiar Hitler line by which communism is made the bogey . . . to confuse...
Court v. Congress. Professor Commager might admit that the bogey remains: representatives of the people might threaten the integrity of the Bill of Rights. But the Professor does not trust the Supreme Court to protect freedom. The record of history, he says, "reveals no instance (with the possible exception of the dubious Wong Wing case) where the Court has intervened on behalf of the underprivileged-the Negro, the alien, women, children, workers, tenant-farmers.* It reveals, on the contrary, that the Court has effectively intervened again and again to defeat congressional efforts to free slaves, guarantee civil rights to Negroes...
Reason for this unusual break into print was that the Tribune had been bug-eyed for weeks over a private and patently ridiculous bogey: education of U.S. youths in foreign countries. No one was much surprised that the Anglophobiac Tribune saw the greatest menace of all in U.S. students at the great English universities...
...frighten the Allies the Badoglio Government dressed up an old bogey. Said the Rome radio: "Every bomb razing a house to the ground opens the road to subversive ideas and creates a hotbed of revolution. . . . What victory . . . what security can the Anglo-Americans draw from a Europe in the throes of revolution, permeated through and through by the Communist virus...
...Cons. The anti-subsidizers' position is a complex mixture of selfishness ("a higher price for me would only add .0001% to the cost of living"); of sound economics; and of the ancient fear of free men who see the bogey of Federal controls now expanded in new areas. The bogeyman argument has some basis: when Government uses the taxpayers' money to subsidize private industry, it has a moral obligation to check on whether the money is squandered. Sample problem that then arises: if the Government subsidizes General Foods, would the taxpayers' money be wasted if General Foods...