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...report acknowledged that the President is the Commander in Chief, but then went on to note that Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution empowers the Congress "to raise and support" military forces. Stated the report: "Might we not liken the function of the President to that of a general who has complete command over his forces but who cannot dictate the precise weapons with which his forces will be armed? The decision as to the kind of rifle, the type of tank, and the configuration of the airplane has already been decided by other authority and the material furnished...
...liken Oppenheimer's defense to McCarthy's in the sense of a "higher law" is adverse to reality. In Mr. Oppenheimer you have a man continuing to associate with an individual who admittedly attempted to obtain from him our secrets for Russia, pleading political naivete in one breath and distress over international political repercussions of hydrogen development in the other. The committee that judged him was, to say the least, kind. No one, I think, would question his lack of enthusiasm by itself. To separate this issue is to me absurd. McCarthy's defense seems...
...vigorously pro-democratic Labor Party, which has ruled Norway for 18 years; the same men who battled the Nazis in 1940 and brought Norway into NATO in 1949. Antitotalitarian by conviction and habit, they nonetheless hurried their hardscrabble land toward an economy which Norway's angry businessmen liken to that of Nazi Germany or a Red satellite...
...truth, of course, there is no guilt. It borders on paranoia to liken Perini to Benedict Arnold because he didn't want to lose another half million dollars this year--and the next, most likely, and the year after that. It makes no more sense to slander the populace for failing to flock to watch a loser...
Malan's Nationalists blame the African National Congress (A.N.C.) for the Negro bloodshed. They liken congress leaders to Kenya's Mau Mau terrorists, and accuse them of Communism. Actually, though there are Communists in A.N.C., such leaders as James Njongwe and Dr. James S. Moroka, the devoutly Christian president of A.N.C., owe far more to Gandhi than they do to Marx. Their policy, such as it is, is to protest apartheid (racial segregation) laws by a peaceful "civil disobedience" campaign, which they hope will catch the eye of the U.N.* Since the campaign started last June...