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...Justice Stone was the lone dissenter in another far-reaching Supreme Court decision against the Witnesses. Then the eight other Justices ruled that Witness children could be required by local law to salute the flag, even though the salute violated their religious freedom. Last week three of the eight—Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas and Frank Murphy—sided with Stone, publicly acknowledged that they had "wrongly decided " the 1940 case, and declared that both it and last week's ruling suppress "the free exercise of a religion practiced by a minority...