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...give one more example to illustrate this new and growing tendency to enforce conformity, even among self-styled moderates, recalling that if there is anything which has always been distasteful to free men in the long course of history it is a loyalty or test oath of any kind. When the Congress undertook in 1958 to require such an oath of all those who were to receive funds under the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act a number of us within the world of academe contended with some success, after repeated efforts, to have this requirement removed...
...statements have been conspicuously missing from the press-in obedience, no doubt, to an injunction from U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell. Henceforth, he has decreed, if his wife Martha must speak out in public, it must be in Swahili. But what husband has ever silenced his wife? Administering the oath of office to the new president of the American Newspaper Women's Club in Washington last week, Martha spoke in near-faultless Swahili: "Je unaaba kwa kweli kwemba ueazhwga . . ."*Ruled the Attorney General, who was present: "The oath in Swahili is perfectly legal...
...give one more example to illustrate this new and growing tendency to enforce conformity, even among self- styled moderates, recalling that if there is anything which has always been distasteful to free men in the long course of history it is a loyalty or test oath of any kind. When the Congress undertook in 1958 to require such an oath of all those who were to receive funds under the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act a number of us within the world of academe contended with some success, after repeated efforts, to have this requirement removed...
...husband recalled an oath he took when a classmate was killed at 11 a.m. on the day of the World War I armistice. Eliot said the death occurred because a needless front-line charge was ordered. "I swore that day I would do my best to oppose nationalism and war." He denounced "this extraordinary arrogance of so many Americans who think that what they think is right is automatically right...
Byrd's explanation was philosophical. Virginia's Democratic state central committee is requiring party candidates to sign a loyalty oath that binds them to support all Democrats running in the next election. Byrd argued that the rule would force him to support men he did not know. Vowing that he "would rather be a free man than a captive Senator," he defected...