Word: wendelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In a twelfth-floor room of the Federal Building in Boston, stands a large map of the U.S., and above it runs the inscription : "Justice is the guarantee of liberty." At the bottom are the names of distinguished Massachusetts jurists-Cushing, Story, Curtis, Gray, Holmes, Moody, Brandeis, Frankfurter.In front of...
Prosecution v. Persecution. He had, he now testified, joined the Communist Party in 1938, while teaching at Harvard, and had known five other Communists associated with him in secret radar work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1943 to 1945. But he obdurately refused to name his Red friends of...
Despite the extreme emotional reactions to Wendell Furry's latest testimony, the issue is not one of absolute shadings. If one judged Furry on completely moral grounds, his appeal to conscience may seem above reproach. On purely practical grounds, he may not have accomplished very much. We have tried to...
Last Friday Wendell Furry employed a strategy better than any he had used previously. He has shown undeniable courage in abandoning the Fifth Amendment and risking imprisonment. We do not and never intended to ignore this. In refusing to go further than the dictates of his conscience, he has taken...
We need not repeat our opinions on McCarthy and his activities. By this time, they should be quite obvious to anyone who has read our editorials during the past two years. But we have learned from careful observation that McCarthy thrives on defiance. The unstated name, the hinted activity are...