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...Upheld Federal Judge Harold R. Medina in slapping contempt judgments on the five attorneys who, with harassing courtroom tactics, defended the eleven top Communists convicted in New York in 1949 for violation of the Smith Act. The court, wrote Justice Jackson for the majority (in a 5-3 split), will always stand behind lawyers in fearless performance of their duty, but "will not equate contempt with courage or insults with independence." Dissenters Black, Frankfurter and Douglas held that the attorneys were entitled to trial by jury in another court. Added Douglas and Frankfurter: "One who reads the record . . . will have...
...Henry L. Thompson Jr., a member of the Ohio Republican Finance Committee, split away from the committee's support of Taft, announced that he would head a new Toledo Eisenhower-for-President organization, because he thinks Ike would be a winner...
Rebellious Tail. With easy cunning, the Prime Minister sought to v-fden Labor's split. He paid elaborate tribute to such programs as "the Socialist compulsory military service." The opposition's attempt to censure him while approving his program, he conceded charitably, was no worse than the harassing tactics the Tories had used when the Laborites were in power. However, he added, with a glance that traveled from Labor's front to back benches, "they always knew they had us with them if it ever came to a vote against their own tail...
...line in the future. The Bevanites would try to persuade the rest of Labor to join them in fighting Toryism, said Bevan. "But if we cannot go on together, we shall go on alone." Presumably neither Nye Bevan nor Clement Attlee wanted a divorce, for such a split might mean a Tory government for a long time to come. But pride and strong wills were at issue. Even if there was a compromise, the intraparty cold war was sure to rage...
...move would leave Australia without first-line air defense at home: two of its squadrons are now in Malaya, two others in Korea. But Australia has moved forward since its World War II days, when defense forces were split into two groups-volunteers who fought abroad, conscripts for home defense. Now all of Australia's defense forces must serve wherever the government sends them-and the government's policy is to meet threats before they directly menace Australia's shores...