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...disgusted resignation of J. Kenly Bacon as Acting Chief of OARA's Division of River Plate Affairs, after two futile years of pleading for a real crackdown on Argentina...
Last week's polygamy crackdown was prompted by an appeal by Mormon leaders themselves. The polygamists' prosecutor is a tall young Mormon, U.S. Assistant District Attorney John S. Boyden. Since there is no U.S. law against polygamy (except in territories), Boyden invoked the Mann Act, the Lindbergh kidnapping law (against a group who took a 14-year-old girl polygamist to a "lambing ground"), the prohibition against mailing obscene literature, etc. Basis for the raids was a recent test case in which the Government sent Polygamists John and Lola Zenz to prison for terms of five...
...Black markets will get a crackdown...
...Crackdown Exception...
...more than counteracting these opinions were scores of other papers editorializing, like the Birmingham Post, that "it was imperative to scotch the disobedience movement at the start." The most bitter crackdown of all came from London's Daily Mail. "We are paying for past weaknesses," said the Mail. "Gandhi, Azad and Nehru . . . are now in jail. . . . They should have been there years ago. . . . From now on we should rule." The Mail urged that Congress leaders should be deported "as the Quislings they are." Gandhi, roared the Mail, is "a dangerous and unscrupulous politician whose sole desire is that...