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William L. Polk '51 countered with a suggestion that politicking is a "healthy" phenomenon which enables the voters--in this case the incoming council--to get to know the candidates better. "Besides," he continued, "some of the officers who are elected may be new, not returning, councilmen and the recently elected members should have at least a week to become acquainted with each other...
...Angeles, a clutch of angry, elderly demonstrators stormed a U.N. flag-raising ceremony. They chanted "U.N. is un-American," wagged U.S. flags in the faces of sheepish councilmen. The Chicago Tribune discovered a lady sewing on a U.N. flag, and the anti-U.N. fervor swept Tribune-land. Illinois V.F.W. and American Legion posts passed resolutions. The Aurora city council banned the U.N. flag from public buildings because "Russian Communists remain in the United Nations." In Highland Park, the local D.A.R. insisted that the U.N. flag come down. It did. The Parent-Teacher Association insisted it go back up. Town...
...city councilmen wanted to fire him at once, but Duxbury was not a dangerous Communist, he calmly explained-merely a Communist in his own little way. He didn't belong to the party ("They won't take me in") and didn't want to overthrow the Government ("It will collapse from its own rottenness"); he had merely registered to vote as a Communist...
Through an interpreter of indifferent fluency, Colonel Melchior advised the new councilmen to set up municipal police, a rice distribution system and a weapons dump to take care of the thousands of arms abandoned by the retreating Communists. The councilmen clearly had no idea of what they were supposed to do or how to do it. One of the colonel's aides smiled wanly and said, "It's the same story all over again. We just don't have properly trained people. If we had just six Americans who could speak fluent Korean we could make something...
William R. Polk '51, one of the newly elected Councilmen, said last night that the new Council was determined "not to drag out the matter of constitutional revision with talk and talk...