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Applications for admission to the Littauer School of Public Administration have decreased by almost one-third this year because of generally unattractive conditions in the Civil Service, Robert G. McCloskey, Littauer administrator and Associate Professor of Government, said last night...
...McCloskey added, however, that he is "certain the present situation is only temporary...
Associate professor Robert McCloskey's article on "The McCarran Act and the doctrine of Arbitrary Power" finds the author fighting for civil liberties in a thoroughly rational and often brilliant manner, against the doctrine that the Supreme Court should restrain itself from striking down some of the overly-broad anti-Communist measures in the McCarran Act. It is the same kind of battle fought by men like Justice Sutherland on behalf of another kind of liberty twenty years ago. The same principles are there: that individual liberty needs Court protection from legislative whim; that "a state does not possess...
...parallel with Sutherland's economic freedom shows that, in the end, the issue is one of values. McCloskey makes a convincing case for the traditional sanctity of civil rights. But if security--against real or imaginary dangers--is going to be a superior value to the people, the history of the Court shows that the people will have their way. The Courts cannot hold out long as the only protectors of civil liberties--although, as McCloskey points out, the present Court does not even seem to be trying...
...McCloskey recalled that many of the same proposals were made five years ago by Bernard Baruch, but that efforts to initiate international control have continually been squelched because the Soviet Union refused to allow inspection by foreigners...