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...campaigning vote-seeker. But while Moscow's good-will ambassadors swelled with complacency at the air of universal approval surrounding them, their Indian hosts had begun to entertain some sober second thoughts. Bursting with genial, jocular generalities all along the line of march, the fun-loving Red Rover Boys had progressively proved more and more forgetful of the fact that Nehru's India still hugs a determined neutralism close to its heart. In one breath they decried the West's preoccupation with H-bombs; in another, they boasted loudly of their own recent experiments with the same...
...Government has already made two indictments against Lattimore, both of which Youngdahl rejected as unconstitutional. When he dismissed as too vague its first major charge, that Lattimore was a Communist sympathizer, U.S. attorney Rover accused Youngdahl of prejudice and asked him to withdraw from the case. Rover's accusation came very close to a demand for a judge who would give the verdict he desired...
...second major charge, filed last October, the Government stated that Lattimore committed perjury when he denied following the Communist line. The U.S. attorney here took the debatable position that such a propaganda line is strictly definable. Rover also assumed that Lattimore used the Government's definition when he denied that he was a Communist. But this conclusion is conjectural. It was not until two years after Lattimore was originally questioned that the Government's attorney actually defined the Communist line...
...these present charges constitute the Government's case, then it has no case at all. Whether or not Lattimore is guilty, Rover to date has shown no grounds for his accusations. If the Government can produce no more convincing arguments, it should drop its charges...
...good many attorneys, fascinated by the issue, had gathered for the hearing. Sternly, Prosecutor Rover accused Judge Youngdahl of "astounding language" in his 1953 opinion (which cautioned against requiring "conformity in thought"). "The Government is not trying to put Lattimore's mind in a straitjacket," roared Rover. "We are trying to convict him for lying under oath." Youngdahl's 1953 opinion was "a gratuitous insult to the Government," he declared. "You picked out what was favorable to the defendant and left out what was unfavorable. I want a judge with an open mind and not a judge...