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...energetic as he is, Hoadley would be powerless without the state law on which he is basing his prosecution. Although it has never been tested, the twelve-year old Anti-Subversion Act is probably unconstitutional. In 1956, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the case of Pennsylvania V. Nelson that the Federal government pre-empts prosecution of subversion, forbidding action by state authorities. But the Indiana act makes it "the public policy of the state of Indiana ... to exterminate Communism and communists, and any or all teachings of the same...
...Russin's criticisms are well put. But he has committed at least two sins of omission. The first: James Baldwin has said that the Negro will have the white man. One reason is that we still believe in man. Therefore, we men, powerless as we are supposed to be, still believe that it is good, just and important to stand up for what we believe. Sometimes, just to stand, glad that we have freed ourselves so that we can stand, and march. For it is fundamentally a matter of our humanity. The March on Washington gives us a chance...
...Socialism's most bitter and intransigent voice in the House of Commons. Thus he can hardly be expected to stress the central irony of Sevan's life: that a man cannot make himself, as Bevan did, an effective tribune of the poor, the obscure and the powerless without himself becoming prosperous, famous and something of a power in the land. Foot insists that Bevan sought to "rise with his class and not out of it," but Foot's facts vote...
...Betancourt by direct frontal attack. But they are persistent at sabotage and artful in harassment, hoping to prove that Betancourt cannot maintain order. So far, the tough old ex-revolutionary - who wants to be come his country's first freely elected President to survive his term - has been powerless to end the terrorism...
...Governor-appointed Ole Miss board of trustees was powerless to prevent the usurpation of its authority and functions by Ross Barnett, but in Alabama the constitution, as the result of a turn-of-the-century scandal over political meddling in the university, makes the trustees independent by providing that vacancies on the board are to be filled by vote of the board itself. Ole Miss is a way of making Mississippi kids into Mississippi adults; Alabama is more rigorously concerned with the pursuit of knowledge...