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...Hurrah for the King! Hurrah! Hurrah!" shouted most members of Greece's new Chamber of Deputies last week as they stepped up one by one to take the following oath...
...This oath does not mean what it says, wily Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was at pains to explain. The deputies, mostly henchmen of Premier Tsaldaris' so-called Government Party, were elected by Greeks who suspected M. Tsaldaris of being secretly Royalist but thought they could trust him to uphold the Greek Republic 53 demanded by the official oath. Explaining it glibly away, last week Royalist Tsaldaris declared: "The words 'Parliamentary Republic' do not need to be changed because a Republican Government is not necessarily without a King." The Tsaldaris Government next decided that between Sept...
...wake of Michigan, Georgia and Arizona, Massachusetts last fortnight passed a bill requiring every teacher and professor to swear allegiance to Federal and State Constitutions (TIME, April 15), thus brought to 19 the number of Red-scared states having teachers' oath laws...
...returned to the issue of Academic Freedom, framed a careful resolution. They proposed that NEA set up a committee of five-three of them classroom teachers. The committee would investigate dismissals of capable teachers, might even go to court to aid them; would fight such legislation as teachers' oath bills;* would cooperate with the Progressive Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers (A. F. of L. affiliate), the Civil Liberties Union, other "reputable" liberal organizations. On the last day of the convention the insurgents got their resolution on the floor. The Assembly passed it, thus establishing this policy...
...Sure enough, it was Ernest Elmer Baker, dressed up in an old Red Army uniform. He had worked his way to Rotterdam, jumped ship with $10 in his pocket, started to walk to Russia. He had no passport because to get one he would have had to swear an oath, which his religion forbade. Time & again German and Polish authorities had clapped him into jail, but Ernest Elmer Baker always got out and kept on walking. Soviet frontier guards had finally picked him up ragged and penniless near Minsk...