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...Knowland called for "a tight naval blockade of the entire China coast." Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., said the sentences were "a new act of barbarism" which "adds still another item to the long list of reasons why the unspeakable gang in Peking is unfit...
...staff had to record the remaining reactions as "No comment." Some of them were unfit for publication in a family newspaper, but in the majority of cases the offended individual merely stared at us much as a pinched female Saltonstall might regard a drunken male Murphy, and stalked off muttering something about public education going too far. Reprinted in entirety from the Cornell Daily Sun, October...
ASSUMING that [Adlai] Stevenson is employing the [present] Congressional campaign as a springboard to the Democratic renomination for President two years hence, it seems obvious that a Democratic Congress would spend the next two years in trying to persuade the voters not only that the Republican party is unfit to govern but also that the President is a failure as Chief Executive and party leader and has permitted "Big Business" to take over the country. This strategy, indeed, is already apparent in the campaign overtures sounded by all Democratic leaders...
According to Moskoff the major problem of the investigators is the kind of subversive being sought and dismissed; "It is plain that any person who actively supports a totalitarian government or who seeks to impose a totalitarian government on the United States by membership . . . in such organization, is unfit to teach in our schools. It is recognized that in our democracy individual citizens are free to believe as they wish, even in Communism, Fascism, the Ku Klux Klan, or Nazism, but it is not conceded that such right to such belief includes the right to crystallize these beliefs into action...
R.P.I. president Livingston W. Houston immediately announced that the matter would be referred to the trustees for a final decision. At the beginning of the 1953-54 school year, Levy was officially dismissed as "unfit" for his position...