Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between the fury of Earl Browder's cohorts claiming "martyrdom," and the sounds of rejoicing at his conviction, the American public has little chance of deciding sanely whether reaction or justice prevailed. The Goddess of emotion, not law, holds the scales. Too many liberal minds can be swayed by nightmares of a coming purge. Too many conservatives can ease their conscience in the pure and American conduct of the trial. But the error is not in the conviction but in the charge. The real question is whether passport violation should have been pressed in the first place...