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...trampled on civil liberties while looking for subversion. And what revitalizing influence Dies may lack will surely be provided by the Committee's new chairman, Rep. Harold H. Velde. It was Velde who wanted the Library of Congress to list all its "subversive" books, and plumped for a loyalty oath requirement for voting...
...Manhattan quarters, the U.N. was, in effect, put on trial in the U.S. Court House in Foley Square. For the past two weeks, one by one, twelve among the 2,000 Americans employed by the U.N. itself (i.e., not in the U.S. delegation to U.N.) had refused under oath to tell a Senate judiciary subcommittee whether they were or had ever been Communists. All twelve claimed the protection of the self-incrimination clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; one even refused to answer when asked if he was currently spying on the U.S. A 13th witness...
Near Nyeri last week, a Kikuyu chief and two black policemen were hacked to pieces when they surprised a Mau Mau oath-taking ceremony. Only one top Kikuyu chief survives; he is being closely guarded. Police witnesses ("Traitors," according to the Mau Mau) have had both hands cut off or were tied in sacks and drowned. A British colonel and his wife were slashed about the neck and face as they lay in bed one night...
This is the second time the courts have thrown out the controversial oath. Last year the District Court of Appeals ordered the University to reinstate the non-signers, but the regents balked. They recanted the oath only as far as that year was concerned, and left the 18 non-signers out in the cold...
Yesterday's decision upheld the Levering Act that requires a loyalty oath from all California state, county and local government employees. But the Court ruled that this act removed the regents' authority to make such regulations as the special oath...