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...WILD SWEET WITCH (234 pp.)- Philip Woodruff-Harcourt, Brace...
Novelist Woodruff tries half-heartedly to get under the skins of his English characters, who are forever mooning over the little lanes and hedges of England but behaving with wise good cheer. The Wild Sweet Witch ends with Jodh Singh's death by violence in 1938. It is not violence brought on by his political beliefs. When he is framed by two of his enemies, he goes wild and kills them; then he dies fighting rather than surrender to the British commissioner. The "wild, sweet witch" of his visionary hopes-a free and happy India-has at least...
Last March, in an effort to stave off Congressional investigations, frequently known as "witch hunts," in the civil service, President Truman issued an Executive Order making possible "loyalty tests" for some two million government employees. In addition, the Civil Service Commission was ordered to create a "review board." In the action of this board, which meets for the first time tomorrow, will lie the success or failure of the President's program. Without forceful moves on the part of the board, the examinations can easily fulfill the raucous predictions of those who are already waving their manifestos and shouting "police...
...Barnes' proposed bill to freedom of expression in the teaching profession needs no elaboration. Less obvious is the danger that the bill will meet violent, but undefined opposition. In Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Associate Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. suggested that the first constructive step towards combatting witch hunts while preserving security would be to differentiate "between the rights of an American citizen and the rights of a government employe in a security agency." To make the teaching profession seem to bear a vital relationship to government security would be a small task for experienced red-baiters...
...effort to screen Communists from the pedagogic profession or to weed out alleged disloyalty was branded "a witch hunt" by the famous anthropologist, "which might take on political and partisan coloration...