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Charles R> Cherington '35,professor of Government and director of the Bureau for Research in Municipal Government, announced that the Bureau is now administering a $2500 grant to the University from the Citizenship Clearance House, affiliated with the 'Law Center of New York University...
Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, was quick to attack Eisenhower for advocating an action not in line with the "spirit of the Constitution...
...beginning to yield to national hysteria, which is very bad for a President to do," Cherington said. "The essence of his proposal is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution...
Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government, sees the whole spy case as pointing up the danger of Senator McCarthy. "Either McCarthy must be destroyed in American political life," Cherington warns, "or he will in due course destroy American Constitutional government. McCarthy, Jenner and Co. are not really interested in capturing Communists, they're interested in venting hate, frustration, and anti-Semitism upon anyone or anything which appears to be a possible target." McCarthy seeks the Presidency in '56 "as a stepping stone to unconstitutional, treasonable seizure of power. This is the type of issue which could well result...
...Cherington nurses grave doubts about Hoover's role in the White case. "The use of the head of secret police as a witness for political purposes is a portent of things to come. Mr. Hoover possesses files which in times of excitement, passion and departure from due process of law could be used as the justification for imprisoning half a million Americans in concentration campus. I think the FBI now in a position to become the police arm of a McCarthy dictatorship. I think Mr. Hoover is quite capable of operating in this fashion. Despite his denials, Mr. Hoover...