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...Germany; he was liberated there by the Allies and went to Switzerland. The Brussels Parliament installed his brother Charles as Regent and advised Leopold not to come back. Last week Charles was signing documents which began: "I, Charles, Regent of Belgium because the King is unable to function due to enemy action . . ." Unhampered by enemy action, Leopold was in Paris for a few days of tournament golf...
...Russia," admitted Novelist Thomas Mann, "hard for him to understand a man like Shostakovich kneeling down before the authorities. And yet, after all, in the Middle Ages artists lived under the dogma of the church and felt relatively free. It is possible-is it possible?-for an artist to function within a frame of philosophy .whose limits cannot be transcended ... I don't know...
...Redlining, he chucked his job and went over to the Post. A graduate of Columbia, an ex-G.I. and the father of two, Newsman Wechsler has written three books (including a biography of John L. Lewis). His credo for the Post: "It was said long ago that the function of a newspaper is to 'comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.' Too many newspapers have forgotten the words . . . We propose to remember...
Pouncing on this point, the majority said: "A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger." Freedom of speech, they said, could not be denied unless it created, in the late Oliver Wendell Holmes's classic phrase, "a clear and present danger" to public safety and welfare...
...voted eight, to three that both Phillips and Butterworth be retained. President Allen, in his report to the Regents, recommended that they overrule the majority report of the faculty committee. He regarded the same evidence that it did and still reversed its decision, thereby denying the committee its deliberative function and reducing it to a fact-collecting body...