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Sunday at noon Willard Uphaus was freed from jail and from the political paranoia of the state that imprisoned him. By subjecting Uphaus and his organization to "exposure for exposure's sake," the New Hampshire legislature and Attorney-General Wyman denied them the right of group association that is essential to freedom of assembly. Obsessed with a suspicion of "out-of-state" ideas and people, state authorities arbitrarily limited the number and length of visits to the 70-year-old pacifist. Now, the Superior Court has finally refused to keep him in jail any longer...
...list of welcome changes does not end here. Attorney-General Wyman has rejected another term after his present one ends on Friday. For the last seven years he has used the power of his office and of public opinion to persecute dissent in a manner not only contemptuous of civil liberties but also amusingly destructive of New Hampshire's favorite shibboleth: meddlesome government is evil. That adage seems a ludicrous antique...
...heard the last of the Uphaus case. World Fellowship, Uphaus' group, is growing, and Wyman will remain in Concord as an adviser to the Governor. Wyman stated enigmatically last week that "[Uphaus] and the organization known as World Fellowship will continue to be the object of very careful investigation." The thought of a life term for Uphaus is improbable, but not inconceivable. With the new Attorney-General will rest the decision whether to keep alive a case that relates about as much to the state's security as kindergarten pranks...
Because last week's Supreme Court decision was based on lack of Federal jurisdiction, it is not the sell-out it is claimed to be. The appeal claimed that since in 1957 the legislature had changed the law under which Wyman was acting, Uphaus's conviction now had no force. But because the State Supreme Court had ruled that the change was only in wording, the Federal court had to have grounds of constitutional conflict to assert jurisdiction. It had denied itself such grounds when it declared in 1959 that governmental interest out-weighed the right of associational privacy...
...limitation of Uphaus's freedom of association illustrates how little segregation and civil liberties decisions really impinge upon each other. When Alabama tried to force the NAACP to hand over membership lists, the Court answered that group privacy is indispensable to freedom of association. Since Wyman was cooperating with Attorney Generals from 37 states in compiling a blacklist, there is little reason why the Alabama decision should not apply to Willard Uphaus as well...