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...California's Sixteenth District (west Los Angeles County), Republican Representative Donald Lester Jackson faces trouble. A member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, Jackson last year said that Washington's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam "has been to the Communist front what Man o' War was to thoroughbred horse racing [serving] God on Sunday and the Communist front for the balance of the week ..." Recalling that comment, the Rev. S. (for nothing) Mark Hogue, minister of the Westwood Hills Congregational Church, announced that he is going after the Democratic nomination for Jackson's seat. Said Candidate...
...Cambridge Ministers' Association yesterday contradicted accusations by Herbert Philbrick by asserting their faith in the Rev. Kenneth dePew Hughes as a "true minister of the Gospel." Philbrick had charged before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee last month that Hughes, minister at St. Bartholomew's of Cambridge, was "another of those who worked with the Communist Party over a number of years...
Psychologist Paul Woodring of Western Washington College of Education believes that the great debate over the U.S. public schools may be out of hand. "Critics have loudly denounced the schools as godless, Communistic, unAmerican, unenlightened and subversive, while the defenders have counterattacked with charges that the critics themselves are fascist, reactionary and, of course, unAmerican, unenlightened and subversive." Nevertheless, he is convinced that there is something wrong with U.S. education. Last week, in a new book called Let's Talk Sense About Our Schools (McGraw-Hill; $3.50), Woodring tells what. There is good reason, says he, for the fact...
Another sag in "Americanism" that brought DAR action was the "unamerican" flying of another flag on an equal level with that of the United States. A DAR agent found the Un guilty of this and the outraged Daughters hastened to have the equal arrangement changed. When the Norfolk Navy Yard repeated the insult, they passed a resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...
...professor, Saturday Review: "I think Hiss is innocent . . . Mr. Chambers is the author of one of the longest works of fiction of the year . . ." Cf Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Saturday Review: "Whittaker Chambers has written one of the really significant American autobiographies. [The book] is written with intensity-with an unAmerican, I was about to say, or at least un-Anglo-Saxon intensity . . . Chambers is a figure out of Dostoevsky, not out of William Dean Howells . . . When Mr. Chambers demands belief in God as the first credential, he is surely skating near the edge of an arrogance...