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Blundell has advised farmers to "get rid of all Kikuyu or at least never to let a Kikuyu enter the farmhouse after dark. I've been told this was drastic, brutal and unnecessary. But the Mau Mau oath has a terrible binding power. One Kikuyu who had worked on a farm for 25 years went to his bwana. 'I'm leaving,' he said. 'They made me take the Mau Mau oath. This means they may ask me to kill you and I won't want to be in a position where I could obey...
...Blundell's own farm, the Mau Mau oath administrators arrived one night at the huts, tortured several of his Kikuyu into taking the oath. The victims were beaten almost to death, and half-strangled. Only one, a sobbing teen-ager dared confide in Blundell what had happened. And the chief oath administrator was a well-dressed, well-educated young Kikuyu whom the Blundells had fully trusted...
...story of the past-1951. It takes place in two mythical countries. One is called Lichtenburg-the other, the United States of America." As the show begins, folksy Washington Hostess Mrs. Sally Adams (Ethel Merman), a lady not unlike Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta, is taking her oath as U.S. Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg. In Lichtenburg, almost everybody-including Princess Vera-Ellen, Foreign Minister George Sanders and Press Attaché Donald O'Connor-seems willing to break into a song or a dance at the drop of a cue. There are some plot complications about...
Hearings Resemble Oath Test...
...current hearings are merely an aggravated form of the test oath. All of the objections to this oath which were asserted in the University of California fight and in the recent Oklahoma litigation apply in much greater degree to congressional bearings in which one is first compelled to reiterate his loyalty under oath an then to submit to an elaborate cross-examination on his beliefs, friends, and support of liberal causes in the committee's effort to break him down. Mr. Justice Black has said that "Test oaths are notorious tools of tyranny. When used to shackle the mind they...