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Said the majority opinion, written by Justice Tom Clark: "At the outset we must condemn the practice of imputing a sinister meaning to the exercise of a person's constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment . . . The privilege against self-incrimination would be reduced to a hollow mockery if its exercise could be taken as equivalent either to a confession of guilt or a conclusive presumption of perjury...
...Time Is Now." Quickly, it became evident that most of the delegates were in a mood for vehement talk. "We seek action now," cried N.A.A.C.P.'s Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. "We are here to condemn murderers. We are here to demand redress for victims of cruel dictatorship." N.A.A.C.P.'s Washington director, Clarence Mitchell, added: "Tell those Democrats that if they keep a stinking albatross like Senator Eastland around their necks they can kiss our votes goodbye." Some N.A.A.C.P. delegates felt, however, that such talk did the organization more harm than good in the high-tension atmosphere of today...
...manager's advice. "I have confidence in the District Courts and in the reason and judgment of the people in the South," he said mildly, on his arrival in Birmingham. Then, prodded by reporters, he blurted out some forthright second thoughts: "I'm not going to condemn the Supreme Court of the United States. Riots will gain the people of the South nothing. I'm one who believes the Supreme Court is very necessary in interpreting the rights of the people...
...addition, against admission of Franco there are arguments that apply to no other government. One of these is that Franco was installed into power by the very governments the U.N. came into being to fight (Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy). The U.N. Charter was specifically made out to condemn Franco and the principles he stood for, and this policy was reasserted by a vote of the General Assembly on December 12, 1946 and again in the April-May session in 1949. Franco's dictatorial record is unique in the history of existing totalitarian regimes. In many respects not even Russia...
...would be willing to marry the pair, two were undecided. One outspoken churchman, Canon Charles Kirkland of Canterbury, told an audience of mothers last week that the Princess "contemplates doing something which is deliberately an affront both to religion and the church." Some other Anglican churchmen were quick to condemn these words as "cruel and unjust...