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...substitute would toss out the two most obnoxious Bricker demands: 1) to give Congress the power to regulate all executive agreements, and 2) to make treaties effective as U.S. internal law only "through legislation which would be valid in the absence of a treaty" (the notorious "which" clause, which its opponents-including the President-say would sometimes give state legislatures the right to repudiate the nation's treaties). But the substitute would make it mandatory for all treaties to be made "in pursuance of the Constitution," instead of merely "under the authority of the U.S.," as is now required...
...colleagues backed McDonald on this scheme. Free-trading commissioners feared that to propose it would be to admit that tariff cuts actually would hurt home industries. Protectionists ridiculed it, for it struck at the heart of their arguments: by automatically compensating for damage to industry, the only valid reason for tariffs is removed. Gene Milli kin called it "government trying to play the Deity with our economic system." Such statements overlooked some figures computed by the U.S. Labor Department: each week 300,000 newly unemployed workers apply for jobless insurance; but cutting all tariffs in half would cost only...
Section 2, for example, would subject a large portion of diplomatic business to a procedure fit only for Constitutional amendments. A treaty shall become effective as internal law of the United States only through legislation which would be valid in the absence of treaty. This is not a return to the Articles of Confederation by any means, for the federal government's share of power is much larger than it once was. Nevertheless, much of the most elementary stuff of foreign affairs would fall within Bricker's charmed circle. As the New York Times pointed out, even the common-garden...
...Maccoby's review of the American production of The Confidential Clerk is the most interesting to have appeared thus far. His contention that the play has a symbolic connection to the story of Christ seems to me to be valid. I should like to press the contention a little further, to suggest just how elaborately Mr. Eliot, abetted by his favorite director, Mr. E. Martin Browne, has worked out the Christian parallels...
...Senator's is of unquestioned standing; I merely suggest that "he" not be considered with a biased opinion, either all good or all bad, but I plead with the press in general, particularly the CRIMSON, to judge him more in the light of each action, as a valid attempt, directed either toward a useful or arbitrary end. Perhaps this will lead to a recognition of his non-attempt to inflict the injury known as "McCarthyism," and the positive attempt at safeguarding democracy, regardless of whether a good is morally acceptable if achieved through invalid means...