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...time defending people before loyalty boards, House committees, and also before juries. "Defending" is Rogge's word for it, for he spends the greater part of 'Our Vanishing Civil Liberties' "attacking the fiction that the House Committee (or other government bodies) 'investigates' when its only function is to smear, condemn, and sabotage the legal activities of progressive Americans...
...surprised," De Gaulle said, "that none of you ask me about Marshal Petain. Let me talk to you about him ... It was necessary to condemn him, because his person symbolized capitulation . . . But today there only remains an old man in a fortress who once rendered great services to France. Is he to be allowed to die without again seeing a tree, a flower, or a friend?" Petain, De Gaulle thought, should be the first to be released...
...this work is essential. Otherwise we are going to lose a lot of very good men like Frank Graham; some will be turned dow, some will refuse to work under an implied restriction of their outside activities. Association is a dangerously weak standard by which to condemn a man; until this standard is much further replaced by actual investigation, our security program will be neither just nor efficient...
...Russians] want to send their scientists to Siberia because they do not make the cold facts of sciences, such as genetics, support Soviet political theories, I condemn it as inhuman; but I don't think it imperils our security . . . What I think we would need to fear would be an open-minded, tolerant and inquiring Soviet Union, thirsting for truth...
...seconds held up their hands. It was Spano's turn. "The ecclesiastical authorities," he said, "should condemn your truly satanic pride . . . You speak of ... spiritual values, but side with the capitalism of America . . . Your teacher, Jesus Christ [he gulped and began again]-Our teacher, Jesus Christ, said that his kingdom was not of this world . . . the fact is that the church has betrayed the Gospel ... in its humanitarian and social aspect...