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...proper legal definition of "advocacy and teaching," Harlan's opinion pointed to the 1949 jury instructions of Judge Harold Medina in the landmark trial in New York of Communist Party Secretary Eugene Dennis and ten other top U.S. Reds. The Medina instructions, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1951, said that the Smith Act denounced not the "abstract doctrine" of violent overthrow but the "teaching and advocacy of action" in "language reasonably and ordinarily calculated to incite persons to such action." Apparently, to the Supreme Court's mind, the key phrase was "incite to action"-and Judge Mathes...
...difference between the Mathes and Medina instructions might be "subtle and difficult to grasp," wrote Harlan, but this only proves the need for requiring clarity...
Justice Tom Clark, the court's lone all-out dissenter to the opinion, said the distinction was certainly too subtle and difficult for him. Clark added acidly: "Certainly if I had been [the judge] at the [California] trial, I would have given the [Medina] charge, not because I consider it any more correct, but simply because it had the stamp of approval of this court. Perhaps this approach is too practical. But I am sure the trial judge realizes now that practicality often pays...
...militant Istiqlal had no such inhibitions. It called on the Moundamah Seria, an irregular secret police organized by the Istiqlal during the battle for independence. On May Day the Moundamah Seria's armed men moved. One Glaoui son was seized as he drove through the old medina. Three others were intercepted as they left the palace on the way to the golf links. Other Moundamah Seria soldiers swarmed into the palace, captured another...
...will have to take me out dead or tied up," he called into the darkness. "You know the kind of fight I can put up." When news of the impending fight spread through the city, a group of leading citizens dashed to the bishop to protest. By telephone, Monsignor Medina routed Cardinal Luque out of bed. Nervously aware of the church's anger, the government hurriedly called off the attack...