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Though defenders of liberal education are as strongly opposed to subversion as Senator Mundt, who introduced this provision, the "loyalty oath" remains an unattractive monument to misguided patriotism. In the first place, a genuine subversive would have no compunctions about signing such an oath, thereby rendering the provision powerless to fight "overthrow" of our Constitution...
...still being fought. Every schoolboy, guided more by his own temperament than historical fact, still takes sides as a dashing Cavalier or a solid Roundhead-which is perhaps one reason why modern Britain rests its institutions in an all-powerful Parliament but reserves its affections for a powerless monarchy. In Volume II of her great history, which carries on from The King's Peace, Historian C. V. (for Cicely Veronica) Wedgwood touches this national nerve of double loyalty and lets it enliven what would otherwise be dreary years of incessant skirmishes intermixed with interminable diplomatic maneuverings. Only the Cavalier...
...State Department, which recognizes the perils of a non-participation policy more clearly than most branches of the government, is virtually powerless to change the situation even if it wanted to. Its decisions on what is good for the country are already unpopular enough among other Departments to minimize the effects of approving attendance at the Festival. In future hearings, the fact of participation in a Communist-dominated activity would scarcely be mitigated by an ancient endorsement...
CHEN DUMPS AMERICANS WITH ONE JERK, trumpeted the headline in Hong Kong's Communist Wen Hui Pao last week. AMERICANS POWERLESS TO THREATEN CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs. in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by the U.S.'s Isaac Berger...
...teamsters a solid if difficult union with which to do business have not moved for a revolution which might bring in the unpredictable. The little businessmen who have been hit by the thuggery and extortion which comes so easily into a craft union like the teamsters are almost powerless to do anything...