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...view of press stories linking my name with suspected communists as part of a proposed 'unit' for some kind of C.I.A. project, I trust you will permit me to state as I have already reiterated publicly and under oath, that I have never been a communist, nor a communist sympathizer, and that neither my wife nor I had any knowledge of the reported proposal made to C.I.A. in 1949, nor would we have considered working with Agnes Smedley or Anna Louise Strong (also mentioned by Munson) with whose views have been in sharp disagreement then...
Next morning, followed at a discreet distance by her husband Philip, the Queen walked along the garden path linking Clarence House with St. James's Palace, to receive the homage of her Privy Council and sign the oath of accession. An hour later, in a blaze of medieval pomp, her accession was formally proclaimed. Crowds of thousands jammed Pall Mall, St. James's Street, Friary Road and The Mall. Four state trumpeters, resplendent in gold-laced tabards, stepped out on a balcony of St. James's Palace, followed by sergeants-at-arms bearing maces. In the courtyard...
...Premier Duke of the realm, and a Roman Catholic. *Her father took the oath as ruler of "Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India." Gone now are references to "Ireland, Dominions and Empire." The Republic of India recognizes Elizabeth as head of the Commonwealth, but not as Queen. * The sun has set an hour late at Sandringham ever since the reign of George V, who had the clocks set forward to provide more time for shooting. The new Queen decided that she would preserve the custom. † The Queen...
...California discovered when it offered him an associate professorship. Maass refused the job because he could not "accept or associate myself with the limitation on academic freedom that governs the regular faculty." When pressed by this writer for an explanation of his refusal, Maass explained that the loyalty oath itself was not the issue, but rather the firing of eighteen qualified instructors for their refusal to sign...
...Article 7 of the Massachusetts Constitution, which says: "The people alone have the uncontestable and unalienable right to institute government and to alter or totally change the government when safety, happiness, and prosperity require it." Pointing out that not only he, but the District Attorney too has taken an oath under the Constitution, he said that he will always stand for it, but "never go beyond...