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...Manhattan. Connecticut Democrat Tom Dodd issued his own statement of principle: he was not about to go "whole hog'' on the Democratic platform, "merely because it was adopted by our party convention . . . Any attempt of a party convention to dictate to a President or a Congress concerning constitutional responsibilities cannot be countenanced...
Last fortnight the Rev. Gustave Weigel, a distinguished Jesuit theologian, backed Kennedy's interpretations in a formal statement (TIME, Oct. 10). Last week a group of 169 prominent Catholic laymen -including such ardent Democrats as Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy and Connecticut's Senator Tom Dodd, and such solid Nixon Republicans as former Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce and Professor Francis G. Wilson of the University of Illinois -published a landmark "statement of religious liberty." The statement not only backed Kennedy's position that his religion could and would not compromise his actions as President, but went...
Even those who disagree with Pauling's views will concede the urgency of some settlement to the arms race. And everyone must agree that it does harm to muddy this most crucial of debates by confusing its terms. For confusion will result if the public listens to Eastland and Dodd equating communists with those who favor disarmament...
...those worried about war would take issue with the legal right of the Eastland-Dodd sub-committee to investigate the doings of those in the movement for peace. A legal right, hoever, does not constitute a mandate to blacken the eye of this movement; Senate investigating committees, after all, do not operate in vacuums...
...scares in the past did not start by themselves. And a peace scare started by Eastland and Dodd at this stage in the disarmament debate might well be an overture to tragedy. Our world, unlike Woodrow Wilson's, depends for its existence on the dangerous assumption that men will act in good faith...