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...peace. Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.), Roman Censor, was one of the deputies. Carthage's wealth and splendor made him fear for Rome's preëminence. He developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding all his speeches with the phrase: Delenda est Carthago! ("Carthage must be destroyed!") The year Cato died, Rome started her third Punic War (149-146 B.C.) and Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus...
Last year in New York City Phil Edwards, Negro captain of the New York University track team, married a white girl. Queried by a friend, Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, wrote a letter in which he said...
Last week, almost surreptitiously, Senator Heflin got permission to have this letter reprinted in the Appendix of the Congressional Record. That made it privileged, after which it could be cheaply reprinted by the government printing office and franked around the country without postage by Senator Heflin...
Next day when New York's Senator Royal S. Copeland spied the letter in the Record, he was indignant. He arose on the Senate floor to exclaim that what Senator Heflin had written was grossly offensive to the State of New York and its public officials and should, therefore, under the Senate rules, be expunged from the Record. Senator Heflin, his coat tails flapping, objected vigorously, demanded an investigation of the facts, and, furthermore, warned Senator Copeland that he might be lynched if he ever went South on a Presidential campaign. In his best mimic manner the Alabaman visualized...
...fellow who tried to have Tom's letter expunged from the Record when he protested against the marriages of Negroes and Whites?' It will be said 'Yes, he's the same fellow.' 'Well,' they will say, 'We'll give it to him' "? here Senator Heflin executed an encircling gesture with his hand as if tying a rope tight around his throat?" 'in the neck...