Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a newspaper clipping I learn that a group of alumni has formed a committee whose aim is to cause the University to reconsider its appointment of J. Robert Oppenheias William James Lecturer. The basis of their opposition, so it is reported, is what they call his "highly questionable moral background...
...assume this allegation refers to the findings of the A.E.C. Personnel Security Board which in 1954 denied Dr. Oppenheimer security clearance. One of the counts against him in the majority opinion found his moral character defective because in one instance he had lied to the security officers.... Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the nature and circumstances of the incident. Dr. Oppenheimer was approached by a friend, Prof. Haakon Chevalier, while he was director of the atomic research program at Los Alamos, who suggested that it might be a good idea to keep our Russian allies abreast of the progress...
...would seem, moreover, that the gentlemen of the subcommittee are proud of it. They see their "duty," they say, and they are bound to do it. They ignore the fact that their techniques are completely antagonistic to any high moral purpose, and they refuse to acknowledge the gravity of their mistake. Their recent activities have caused a substantial rise of anti-Americanism in Canada, our closest ally, and in the rest of the world. We have grudgingly tolerated investigative irresponsibility on a national level, but we cannot allow it to affect foreign relations...
DAVE BECK has as much right as another American to invoke the Fifth Amendment. His action in doing so is no proof of guilt. The trouble with Beck's protestations of innocence is that he has already admitted a moral offense so vast that anything else is anticlimax; long before he took the stand in Washington, he had confessed that he borrowed more than $300,000 (without interest) from his union's treasury for personal investments. His inability to recognize that there was anything wrong with the act is perhaps the most damning indictment of all. While Beck...
...indictment of army brutality to Arabs in Algeria. "I think that it was highly desirable," General de Bollardière wrote to Servan-Schreiber, to have called attention to "the frightful danger there would be for us in losing sight, under the fallacious pretext of immediate efficacy, of the moral values that alone, until now, have been the grandeur of our civilization and of our army...