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Described by the Attorney General as a "registration" law, the McCarran Act has far wider ramifications. Organizations which are labeled "communist-action" or "communist-front" groups are required to register with the Attorney General with lists of their officers and activities. Since no organization would do this willingly, ethe Attorney General has the power to request the Subversive Activities Control Board to determine the status of an organization...
...beginning its work on General Education courses, therefore, the HPC should insure that a wider range of academic bockgrounds is represent. It should exercise direct control over the selection of panel members, and give clear instructions to its investigators. The HPC should work more closely with the student body, whose opinions and ideas it must transmit, as well as with the CEP, whose questions it must answer. Failing to adopt this approach, it will miss the exciting opportunity that Dean Ford and the CEP have presented...
Some people ask if we are caught in a blind escalation of force that is pulling us headlong toward a wider war that no one wants. The answer-again-is a simple no. We are using that force-and only that force-that is necessary to stop this aggression. Our numbers have increased in Viet Nam because the aggression of others has increased in Viet Nam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation...
Some ask about the risks of a wider war, perhaps against the vast land armies of Red China. And again, the answer is no. We have threatened no one, and we will not. We seek the end of no regime, and we will not. Our purpose is solely to defend against aggression. To any armed attack, we will reply...
After centuries as the playing field of England's budding politicians, Oxford University understandably plays its own games of academic politics in mock-heroic earnest. Harold Macmillan twice won the prime-ministership by wider margins than his 1960 squeak into Oxford's chancellorship. "There's nothing most dons [professors] like better than a good bitchy election," observed the Sunday Times. Last week the bitchiest one in years had Oxford-and the nation -twittering as the port was passed...