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...Laniel boomed: "No! No such political conditions have been imposed." He rose and went to the tribune. "We have studied this question with all attention possible," said he. "We consider as inacceptable all plans which, under the color of a 'cease-fire,' would begin by putting in peril our soldiers and our friends without . . . guarantees of ... a durable peace...
Newspaper publishers, who often argue with unions that the cost of labor is reach ing a peril point, last week found an ally on union's side to back up their stand. Washington's four-year-old Labor Press Associated, a news service supplying some 250 labor papers (for $2 to $15 a week), was forced out of business. Reason: labor trouble. L.P.A., set up in 1949 with money from the C.I.O., A.F.L. and some independent unions to counteract the Communist-line Federated Press, recently laid off one man from its Washington staff to keep down...
...Ordeal of the Mid-Century" is the title of Stevenson's first lecture, scheduled for 8 p.m., March 17, in Sanders Theatre. "Perpetual Peril" and "Some Cautionary Comments" are the titles of his last two talks, which will be delivered in Sanders on March...
...Chafee-Sutherland letter states in part. "The witness is not the ultimate judge of the tendency of an answer to incriminate him. . . A judge must decide when the witness has gone far enough to demonstrate his peril." Meiklejohn points out that in a criminal procedure, the defendant is the "ultimate judge as to whether or not he shall testify." He then asks the question: "On what grounds do they assign to a Congressional Committee an authority over an accused person which, in criminal proceedings, is denied to every agency charged with the administration of justice...
...tend, rightly or wrongly, to convict him of a crime. Manifestly, this is a delicate business. The witness must not be required to prove his guilt in demonstrating the incriminating character of the answer sought. A judge must decide when the witness has gone far enough to demonstrate his peril...