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...views with scholars from Communist countries?" It could be. "Could one support participation by this country in world government?" Maybe not. Such interpretations would not be farfetched, warned Justice Byron White, if the Supreme Court let stand two state of Washington loyalty oaths which required a state employee to swear that he was not a "subversive person" and would "promote undivided allegiance to the Government." A majority of the justices agreed with White, and the Supreme Court last week declared the vague Washington oaths unconstitutional. Noting that the court had upheld a similar Maryland statute, dissenting Justice Tom Clark found...
Shortly after it arrived in Cambridge, a bitter dispute developed over the Teachers' Oath Act, a Massachusetts Law which required instructors to swear that they would support the national and state constitutions. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, called the act "unwarranted and dangerous to democracy." He said he represented many Faculty members in refusing to take the oath because it violated his constitutional rights...
Mather's objection was in reality, based purely on principle for he had taken such oaths many times previously. All through his campaign he maintained that he had "no unwillingness to swear under conditions which make an oath appropriate." While a group of seniors circulated a petition supporting him, Mather reconsidered, then retracted his stand in the interest of keeping the University out of a threatened law-suit...
Throttling the Press. As a leading member of the lower house of the Vir ginia legislature during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson supported a loyalty oath requiring all males over 16 to swear aliegiance to the state. Those refusing were forced to pay triple taxes and stripped of their civil rights. He also helped pass a bill to round up Tories and ship them to designated areas in the interior. He drafted a bill of attainder-which in effect condemns the victim without a trial-against a group of Tories who were plundering the countryside...
...already won. Making no mention of the royalists or of the Saudi Arabian regime that until last July supplied them with arms and money, Nasser turned his wrath on the British, whose vital military base in adjoining Aden he termed "the occupied South." Vowed Egypt's President: "I swear to God to expel Britain from all parts of the Arab world. We shall shed blood and sacrifice souls, and we shall be as victorious as we were in Egypt and Yemen." For good measure, Nasser swore also to "redeem" Israel, which he called a "stooge" of Britain...