Word: wyzanski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27, President of the Board of Overseers and Federal District Judge for Massachusetts, disclosed yesterday that his belief in a non-political judiciary has caused him to turn down an offer of membership on the U.S. delegation to the United Nations for the fall session of the General Assembly...
...letter to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Wyzanski declared that acceptance of the position "would be inconsistent with what I deem to be the deepest moral obligations of my office as a judge of the U.S. Courts...
...Wyzanski added that "service on this particular United States assignment would be so apt to have political as well as legal implications" that he could not continue as Federal judge and accept the appointment. It is known that the question of Red China's admission, as well as tensions in the Middle East, will again be on the General Assembly's agenda...
...addition to serving as chairman of the Board of Overseers for the past three years, Wyzanski is a trustee of Smith College, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the Ford Foundation. His service on the U.N. delegation would begin on November 12, when the Assembly convenes, and extend through mid-December at the earliest...
...Wyzanski yesterday received a Doctor of Laws degree from Brandeis University at their commencement exercises, along with Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, and Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...