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...appear right went to ludicrous lengths. The morning of November 1 the embassy reported to Washington a coup would occur that afternoon by that the military intelligence did not agree. The coup occurred. Later in the afternoon an officer called the embassy and asked that the military statement of dissent be stricken. As Halberstam notes in another context, Westerners are very sensitive about losing face...
...another dissent, Justice R. Ammi Cutter '22 said that while "the book seems to me offensive and unpleasant in numerous respects," he would allow Fanny Hill to circulate except among person under...
...permit these elections to take place in 1956 as provided for by the Geneva accords. Can we then believe that President Johnson's offer to reaffirm old agreements or to strengthen them with new ones is anything less than an attempt to appease the growing chorus of dissent at home and abroad...
Worse yet, Millis' premises are as wrong as his conclusions. For the United States has not managed to remain aloof from local violence, nor have France and China been content with purely verbal dissent over the course of the Cold War. In Vietnam the administration seems to have forgotten about the disutility of arms: Gen. Taylor is reported to have said that there are no measures we are not prepared to take to win the war. Nor does the fact that France and China are both working on an independent deterrent bear out Millis' assertion that weapons are largely ornamental...
...Justice Hugo Black was aghast at the decision. In a dissent that ran longer than the majority opinion, Black saw Congress usurping the jury system that he reveres. Congress can "create crimes," said Black, but the Constitution empowers judges or juries to decide the facts "on their own judgment without legislative restraint." As for personal experience, drawled Black from the bench, "I come from a part of the country where now and then they had some stills, but I never thought that if I was unlucky enough to be caught around there, hunting birds or something, my presence would...