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...last week Candidate Kefauver had a hard time following his manager's advice. "I have confidence in the District Courts and in the reason and judgment of the people in the South," he said mildly, on his arrival in Birmingham. Then, prodded by reporters, he blurted out some forthright second thoughts: "I'm not going to condemn the Supreme Court of the United States. Riots will gain the people of the South nothing. I'm one who believes the Supreme Court is very necessary in interpreting the rights of the people...
...shipment of arms to the Middle East is heartening. While defending the questionable Saudia Arabian tank shipment, he emphasized that arms must not be sent to Israel or to countries directly adjacent because this would precipitate an arms race, in which Israel could not hope to hold her own. Forthright as this statement may be, however, the State Department's encouragement of the shipment of French jets to Israel makes Dulles's peaceloving policy seem a snare and a delusion...
...United States has been fighting a battle for the specific provisions of the U.N. Charter. This is not a rearguard action, but a forthright action. Until the Charter is amended it is the duty of the United States to stand by the principles of the original treaty. We can see that universality was not the basic assumption of the founders of the U.N. if we accept the Charter as an authoritative source. If we can't accept the Charter as an expression of the desires of the founders, whose word can we accept? The word of Alger Hiss...
...CURRIER & IVES TREASURY, edited by Colin Simkin (Crown; $10), contains 80 prints in color, generous in size (10 in. by 14 in.), and calculated to hasten the pulse of anyone devoted to forthright Americana...
Eastern Mystery. Dr. Langmuir was forthright in listing cases where something went wrong. Among those who got vaccine made by California's Cutter Laboratories, 79 developed polio; so did 105 members of their families and 20 "com munity contacts." Three-fourths of the cases were paralytic; there were eleven deaths. Vaccine from a second manufacturer, Pennsylvania's Wyeth Laboratories, was suspected of responsibility for an unstated number of polio cases in the East, but the most rigorous testing by the federal Division of Biologic Standards failed to demonstrate live virus. These cases remained a disguieting mystery...