Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Washington, it might have been difficult last week to scratch up an argument on such momentous subjects as H-bomb fallout or trade with Red China, but nearly every mother's son and every son's mother had an opinion about the case of an American soldier facing trial in a Japanese court. It was not the first time a G.I. faced trial in a foreign court, nor would it be the last. Nonetheless, this was the case that caught the public ear and prompted the rumbling of the Public Voice on Capitol Hill...
Soon letters were pouring into newspapers, heavily backing an American trial for Girard. Congressmen, from left to right, were hammering at the Dulles-Wilson ruling; e.g., Ohio's Senator John Bricker accused the Government of "sacrificing an American soldier to appease Japanese public opinion." Girard's defense attorney, who was recommended for the job by the Hearst New York Journal-American, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington to have Girard brought back to the U.S., announced plans to subpoena Dulles, Wilson and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker. The counterblasts were soon rolling in from all over Asia...
Former U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark, the court's lone all-out dissenter, criticized the majority opinion in unusually strong language. Government law-enforcement agencies, said he, might as well "close up shop, for the court has opened their files to the criminal and thus afforded him a Roman holiday for rummaging through confidential information as well as vital national secrets...
Later in the morning, Bundy countered this opinion by saying that Harvard should expand slowly but steadily over the coming years...
...Wilson Fellowship Program to draw more talent into college teaching by helping promising graduate students. On the other hand, the $500,000 grant to set up an exchange program for U.S. and Polish artists and intellectuals could well have stirred up a flurry of protests. But politics and public opinion aside, philanthropy faces nettlesome occupational hazards...