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Shortly thereafter, on November 12, James M. Landis, Dean emeritus of the Harvard Law School, and Reverend E. Walter Chater, head of a local church, formed a committee to protest the oath. Morally, they appealed that "loyalty cannot, in our opinion, be legislated," while they claimed that the oath was...
If Stevenson, as president, tries to fulfill his promise of bi-partisanship--regrettably, a requirement, as the past four years have indicated, of any successfully executed foreign policy--Lodge will be far more useful to him than a freshman Democrat, and a none too dependable Democrat at that, for Lodge...
These two points are the core of Mr. Landis' letter. There remains, however, a somewhat embarrassing side-issue, Lodge's needless, off-hand, and stupid espousel of McCarthy. Yet, even this is not the damning flaw Mr. Landis considers it. Lodge, according to a current and valid cliche, usually votes...
Lastly, Mr. Landis excoriates Lodge's record of absenteeism, a very strange issue for a Democrat to raise. While Lodge's record might not be the best in the Senate, Kennedy's is undeniably the worst in the House. Kennedy has maintained an average absentee record of 29% over the...
In short, Mr. Landis' letter is hardly convincing. We still believe that defeating Lodge, thus depriving Stevenson or Eisenhower, as the case may be, of a useful and able Republican Senator, just to elect another freshman Democrat, makes no sense. Because it is probable that several of the most objectionable...