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...Middlesex Superior Court last week ordered the Corporation to reinstate Samuel Bowles until the constitutionality of the Massachusetts Teachers' Loyalty Oath is determined. The University has indicated that it will comply with that order and simply postpone any action against Bowles until a suit brought by Joseph Pedlosky, as M.I.T. professor, is heard this October...
...demands a "kind of orthodox nationalism contrary to the principles of free speech and thought." He claims the statute says, in effect, that the only way teachers may express their support of the constitution is to sign this particular oath. Pedlosky has included two other arguments in his suit; that the actual procedures of the law violate the notion of due process and that it discriminates against teachers, singling them out as a group whose loyalties are particularly suspect...
Legal experts are pessimistic about Pedlosky's chances of winning his suit. Several professors of Law have predicted that the oath will stand in the Supreme Judicial Court. The oath is widely regarded as an innocuous one; it has no disclaimer and merely requires signers to affirm loyalty to the constitutions of the Commonwealth and the United States and to promise to "faithfully discharge the duties" of their offices...
Pedlosky plans to appeal the case to the Supreme Court, and a long, perhaps futile, judicial struggle now seems inevitable. While the suit is being adjudicated--and in case it fails--Bowles, Pedlosky, and their supporters should consider the most effective remaining alternative: legislating the repeal of the oath by mobilizing sentiment on campuses throughout Massachusetts. If they sincerely believe that the loyalty pledge represents a threat to academic freedom, they should extend the campaign through petition from Harvard and M.I.T. to other colleges across the Commonwealth...
...Saigon in a war against the Communist; and although he was once a high level minister to Diem, he now belongs to a regime that helped eliminate Diem. This facility of making contrary things seem compatible extends even to his dress. During our interview in the Quincy House guest suite, the Ambassador wore a continental black suit with green socks, a blue tie, and oxblood shoes; yet he still looked natty. Nor did he find it contradictory to attribute the stability of the Ky regime to the cooperation of "people not afraid of the government anymore," while later claiming...