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...Administration's recommendations, however, can fill a conspicuous gap in this country's present security program. This is a bill that would permit the Government to compel testimony of those who invoked the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination by granting them immunity from prosecution. For it is just this silence barrier that has given publicity-hungry investigators so many headlines in the past. Time after time, persons who have not testified for fear of self-incrimination have actually had nothing to hide, yet their actions have blown the subversives issue up to gigantic proportions. An immunity bill would clear...
...ferocity is also part of Mathieu's obvious desire to overpower the viewer and compel his attention. Two smaller pictures-a snarl of black on a red canvas and a few black splashes on a white canvas-show that when the shouter lowers his voice, he also lowers his standards; they are simply chic. But as a whole the exhibition proves that Mathieu is as powerful an abstract expressionist as Manhattan's own Willem de Kooning...
...issued except by the action of the committee as a whole. Terming present practice is respect to the issuing of subpoenas, he said, "There are few ways in which the organized power of the state is brought to bear on a citizen more sharply than through a subpoena to compel testimony. Such a power should not be exercised on the judgment or discretion...
...done wrong, he should be punished. But the evidence against him should be produced and evaluated by a proper court in a fair trial Neither torture nor an oath nor the threat of punishment such as imprisonment for contempt should be used to compel him to provide the evidence to accuse or to convict himself...
...Socialist asked Nehru point-blank if it was not true that Red China was massing troops in Tibet (TIME. Nov. 23). He prodded Nehru: "Would not the deliberate and planned infiltration of our frontiers compel us to look at the situation with greater objectivity...