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...party. I personally feel that the desegregation guidelines should not have been relaxed. It was unwise both in the country's interest and the party's interest. I think we've waited long enough for the Brown decision [the Supreme Court's 1954 edict outlawing school segregation] to be implemented. I was just coming out of the Air Force when that decision was handed down. Since then, my daughter, who was less than a year and a half, has practically finished high school. White children who weren't old enough for kindergarten then have...
Some recalled the famous statement of Andrew Jackson about an edict by the court of Chief Justice John Marshall: "Mr. Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it." Others, like Speaker John McCormack, who was a defendant in the case before the Supreme Court, felt the situation too serious for excited rhetoric...
...sheriff's deputies, patrolled the town and campus. Berkeley began to look like an occupied city, with Army Jeeps and trucks clogging the streets, helicopters patrolling the skies and "Yanqui go home" scrawled on walls. Protest marches of up to 4,000, though illegal under the emergency edict, became a daily occurrence. Late last week, Guardsmen surrounded and arrested 482 marchers in the downtown area. They were held in $800 bail each, in an attempt to break the back of the movement. In ten days of disturbances, there were 150 injuries on both sides and nearly 900 arrests...
...that tour I took him to visit Harvard--my first return there in a number of years. I was ashamed for him to see the sleazy characters who were wandering around the Yard. However, I would not have one lock of their greasy looking, long hair shorn by edict nor force them near a drop of water nor insist that they wear perfume. But I certainly cannot say that I was proud of the outward appearance of the old Alma Mater as far as its students were concerned...
...William Mader's emotional conclusions regarding Poland's treatment of Jews demand contradiction. Let us retitle the article "Third Exodus," since the first, as a result of persecution in virtually all European countries (save Spain), was to Polish sanctuary. Beginning with the "Jewish Edict" of 1264 and its nationwide reaffirmation in 1334, the Jews in Poland enjoyed unparalleled freedom, to the extent of effectual self-rule...