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...President Truman asking for personal assistance in lifting the ban, says the primary reason for the rejection was that be had publicly voiced his disagreement with some of this country's foreign policies. "In truth," the letter said, "I make no secret of the fact that I do dissent, and vigorously...
Many loyal Americans like himself Lamont declared, "are now under a kind of house arrest, for no ascertainable crime and with no satisfactory redress . . . because they have asserted their moral and constitutional right of dissent...
...effort to work out a long-range "Statement of Forces" and a budget for the next fiscal year, his Joint Chiefs of Staff had reached a deadlock. The Air Force wanted to expand from 95 to 163 groups (138 combat, 25 transport). The Army and Navy filed a strong dissent. Navy air (equivalent to 30 groups) ought to be included in the air-power total, they said. The Air Force should organize more transport groups and concentrate on tactical, close air support. Neither side would give an inch...
...Harvard was founded ... by a group of vigorous dissenters from the Church of England. Before a generation had passed there was dissent from the first dissent. By the turn of the eighteenth century the orthodoxy of Harvard was considered highly questionable ... by the time we celebrated our 300th anniversary it was widely accepted that a vast number of colleges and universities in America, whatever their denominational, origins, were ... secular institutions. How could it be otherwise in a nation where religious toleration was a necessary condition of survival...
...thing that really counts, concludes the council, is the right of dissent and choice. "Americans will not welcome in any field a line of reasoning that would forbid them to provide superior facilities . . . for their own families until identical facilities could be made available to the whole population at public expense...