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...President must be ascribed one of two ungenerous motives. Either he is convinced the budget should be cut but is himself unwilling to take the steps, which are bound to offend someone, or he believes that it is the safest minimum expenditure for the welfare of the country, but refuses to defend it strongly in the face of public protest led by his own Secretary of the Treasury...
There is very little that any art form, most of all the cinema, can say significantly that is not bound to offend somebody. But the offense is less dangerous than the suffocation of the art. Modern drama and literature have shown a deep concern for the darker side of life; to cut the cinema off from this mainstream of intense concern and bewilderment in modern art is to allow it to become more and more a picture of a mythical and unreal world...
...Harlan (joined by Stanley Reed and Harold Burton) came a vigorous dissent. The gist: not only was there no physical coercion but "psychological coercion is by no means manifest"; on the basis of the record, the state authorities did nothing more serious in their handling of the case than "offend some fastidious squeamishness or private sentimentalism about combating crime too energetically." In any case, wrote Harlan, since reasonable men could differ on whether Fikes's constitutional rights had been violated, "due regard for the division between state and federal functions in the administration of criminal justice requires that...
...know the "right people" want to hear, or say the wrong, though perhaps honest thing and sometimes lose their post, their promotion, or their job. When a report is written with the idea that it will be read ten years from now or that what it says must not offend an important group of people, the report is likely to be somewhat less than honest...
Convenient Theory. When the city was calm again, the government announced its finding: the riots had been caused by Chinese secret societies that victimize the refugees. This was a convenient theory, designed to offend neither the Communists nor the Nationalists, and no one gave it much credence. The riots were undoubtedly spontaneous, but the well-discipline'd movements and the antiforeigner manifestations that marked their later stages smacked suspiciously of classic Communist tactics. As the only political organization in Hong Kong capable of such efficient exploitation, the Communists stood to gain by using the violence to 1) test Hong...