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...records, accounts, business files, public files . . . Witnesses have declined to answer questions from time to time. The chief reason advanced has been that the testimony related to purely private affairs. In each instance with which I am familiar, the House and Senate have steadfastly adhered to their right to compel reply, and the witness has either answered or been imprisoned...
Stronger Compulsion. "Any attempt to compel us to accept a miscarriage of justice and a system of discrimination," rasped Israel's shock-haired lawgiver, "will meet with our unflinching opposition." President Eisenhower's first message, said B-G, "placed me under great moral pressure, for I was keenly conscious of the personality and the standing of the writer. And if I was compelled to reply as I did, I did so only under a still stronger compulsion: the pressure of my conscience as a man and a Jew, the pressure of the justice for which my people were...
...denial in detail cannot but raise suspicions. Yet to conclude from his silence that he and his backers are guilty would be unfair. The Student Council, WHRB, and the CRIMSON have a clear duty to try to get his stand made public, but they have no authority to compel him, and if he chooses to keep silent, that is his privilege. We regret his silence, for he might have cleared matters up easily, but his right must be acknowledged...
...With that, LeRoy Collins got down to specifics that went remarkably far for a Southern governor. His central theme: great as is the court's power, it cannot "compel social adjustments," which can only emerge from changes in "the hearts and minds of people." The court itself, he declared, acknowledged this fact in its school decision by recognizing "to a degree local conditions and problems" and thus not making integration "compulsory." Thus "segregation in Florida schools . . . can be expected to prevail for the foreseeable future...
...blood bath in Eastern Europe but requires a return to one-man dictatorship in Russia, for it takes a Stalin to impose Stalinism. To go forward with liberalization risks the gradual dismemberment of the satellite empire. But in the end, the sins, fallacies and weaknesses of Soviet Communism may compel the Russians to take that risk, in order to save what they...