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...Challenge You." Said Oscar Chapman to poker-faced Andy Schoeppel: "I challenge you and dare you to shed the cloak of immunity and sit here under oath . . . and repeat the speech." Andy Schoeppel calmly blew a smoke screen with his pipe, sat behind it and ducked the challenge...
...Uproot Communism. Members of Nguyen Van Tin's league have to take an oath of allegiance and swear "to search energetically day and night for the means to uproot Communism." Two hundred men of Bai Trang have taken this oath. A hundred and fifty of them are used to protect the village against Communist night raids. Of these, 90 have only clubs and knives, 40 have rifles given by the French, and 20 have sporting rifles bought out of village funds...
Baudouin was about to take the oath of allegiance to the constitution when a piercing cry rang through the hall: "Vive la République!" The cry had been voiced by Julien Lahaut, white-maned president of the Belgian Communist Party. His shocked fellow deputies (who wanted to get rid of Leopold, not of the monarchy) broke into hurried applause for Baudouin. The prince blushed furiously, his eyes downcast. Finally order was restored and Baudouin managed to say: "I swear to observe the constitution and the laws of the Belgian people...
...Judge Harold Medina, the constitutionality of the Smith Act,* and the conviction, under the act, of the Communist Party's eleven top officials (TIME, Oct. 24). If the Supreme Court justices follow where Medina and Hand have led -and their recent decision upholding the Taft-Hartley non-Communist oath indicates they will-the eleven will be fined $10,000 each and carted off to serve up to five years...
...prostitutes, officially outlawed, were still in business. Monsieur Monge, the horse butcher, was at his old stand and doing better than ever. Young Dr. Thiouville, a Communist, was new, but Paul decided that he was a fine fellow because his leftishness did not get between him and the Hippocratic oath. Love was going on as usual, with all its old Gallic casualness; so was French inefficiency (wretched telephone service, exasperating loafing on the job). Paul decided it was all just as endearing as ever...