Word: oath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roses. Last week, in the red-and-gold pendopo (pavilion) of the Sultan of Jogjakarta, Soekarno formally took his oath of office on the Koran (which according to Moslem custom was held against the back of his head). "Brothers, brothers," he cried in his inaugural address, "I pray for strength. Our task now is to fill that vacuum called freedom . . . Now we must heal the wounds and wipe off the blood...
...also decided to start action against the Navy ROTC loyalty oath...
Action on the loyalty oath, which the Council has been investigating for four weeks, will be in the form of a recommendation to be sent to President Conant, Provost Buck, and Dean Bender. The recommendation will "urge" that the University administrators "employ every means at their disposal" to secure the elimination of certain Navy oath requirements for reserve students which the Council feels to be "in conflict with the free and unhampered exchange of ideas in a free academic society...
Last summer House and Senate armed services committees expressed confidence that the extension would be granted. Vinson's telegram and the New York on the oath are "prosecution and punishment under the appropriate laws of the United States...
Included in the oath is the so-called "stool-pigeon clause," which commands the Navy man to name all other persons, Navy or non-Navy, whom he remembers seeing at any activity of the "subversive" group...