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...ACLU plea was prompted by the surrender of membership lists by the University of Michigan and University of California at Berkeley when they were subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee last August...
...plea was as old as justice itself. You have the wrong man, argued Timothy Evans, who was charged with strangling his wife and infant daughter. The real killer, he swore, was the prosecution's chief witness, John Christie. Neither judge nor jury was impressed, and in 1950 Evans was hanged in a London prison...
That night, after a brief appearance at a Columbus Day parade on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, Johnson made an eloquent plea for interracial understanding at a Brooklyn gathering of Italian-American businessmen. Reminding his audience that Italian immigrants had once experienced "the raw pain of discrimination" that is felt by Negroes today, L.B.J. added: "I ask those of you who have crossed the river to extend to them a helping hand...
...when the House of Representatives' "gag rule" cut off abolitionist demands. Fortunately, the right has survived all such challenges. If, however, the petition is to remain a meaningful force for "redress of grievances," it must be employed more sparingly-and as a precise, if impassioned, plea rather than as a manufactured publicity device...
...Lagos, the newspaper Daily Sketch made an eloquent and pathetic plea for sanity. "Will no one save Nigeria?" it asked. "Is there no one whose love for Nigeria transcends love of tribe or personal safety, who is willing to come forward and seek others like himself to nurse this sick nation? If there be a man, let him come forward. Today, for God's sake...