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General Robert E. Lee also read the Yankee newspapers with devoted attention. When the War Department in Washington tried to dam the leaks, the Union papers cried "freedom of the press." The Chicago Times denounced Government censorship of the telegraph lines as a "most odious tyranny, with no parallel in the annals of free nations." But by the end of the war, the press had accepted the Army's insistence that it show some responsibility. On their side, most of the generals recognized the correspondent as at least a necessary evil; they began to accredit him officially, supply...
...statement released by Professor Allan Knight Chalmers of the Boston University School or Theology, the educators said that their "primary concern" is not in the technical or legal points involved in Congressional investigations into education, which "may or may not uncover the fact that certain individuals have belonged to odious but not illegal groups, or subscribed to a philosophy we find abhorrent...
Worse still, the units are reducing a matter of personal choice to one of crude force. Blood drives, granted, are directed toward goals so manifestly desirable that they justify what otherwise would, at a liberal arts college, be odious in the extreme--but even here, there must be a limit. Bribery and thinly-veiled coercion are will beyond that limit...
...elaborate cross-examination on his beliefs, friends, and support of liberal causes in the committee's effort to break him down. Mr. Justice Black has said that "Test oaths are notorious tools of tyranny. When used to shackle the mind they are, or at least should be, unspeakably odious to a free people." The hearings accentuate the evil...
Although newspapers are exempted from the law, editors protested that it was an infringement of freedom of the press. The law, said Odom Fanning, president of the Atlanta chapter of the journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi, "could be used to bring about 'thought control,' the odious practice [of] all dictatorships...