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...Uphold, Not Upset. No sooner had the three school boards acted than the pressures began building toward a blowoff. Fiery crosses burned at night near Charlotte. A hooded Klansman promised to "muster 50,000 men by the time schools begin to open." Fanatic John Kasper of New Jersey roared into Greensboro, Charlotte and Winston-Salem, harangued his followers to drive school-board members to "nervous breakdowns, heart attacks and suicide...
...stations last week, Hodges expressed his personal feelings: "I think the U.S. Supreme Court made a tragic mistake." But, he said, "we are forced to recognize that that court has the final word. [We] do not like lawlessness." Luther Hodges meant to use the power of the state to uphold, not upset, the law of the land...
...just summary: "This conviction . . . that it was his transcendental mission to save Russia, an idea that was completely divorced from reality . . . was the tragedy of his life." Yet, in a sense, though Gogol could not save his own reason, he came close to saving Russia's. Hoping to uphold a dark orthodox authority, Gogol kindled flickering gleams of liberty. Those who came later established, in the name of freedom, a darker authority than Gogol could have dreamed...
...Supreme Court went all the way back to an opinion written by John Marshall, the third Chief Justice of the U.S., to uphold the Administration's law foundation for the status-of-forces agreements. Paraphrasing Marshall, the court said: "A sovereign nation has exclusive jurisdiction to punish offenses against its laws committed within its borders unless it expressly or impliedly consents to surrender its jurisdiction." Marshall, C.J., stated this as a legal absolute...
...under the status-of-forces agreements, the U.S. is dealing with the intricate problems in a positive way that is perhaps unique in the history of global powers; it is following the rule of law rather than of prideful chauvinism. In heeding the natural desire of its allies to uphold the integrity of their laws, the U.S. is contributing to allied self-respect and thereby to the strength of the coalition. By watching vigilantly over the lot of its men in foreign courts, the U.S. is extending around the world its concern for and its principles of justice...