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0-19 (Rev. 9-7-5686) a el * “ee a ——y _—ee at on what has been called “the witchhunting epoch.” The © Jeera ane inag Utah Words Weré Hever mine. Wiitoes were iliusions. Communists are real, and the existence of an international Communist con- spiraty is a fact. But these decisions—releas- ing five known Communists in California, and demanding re- trials for nine others; re- habilitating a discharged State Department official, and ex- onerating a labor leader who * was fined and imprisoned for - contempt of Congress because he refused to name former Communist associates — indi- cates the Supreme Court no longer regards communism as “ag real and present danger” .or interne] threat to the se- curity of the Américan Gov- ernment. It is most unlikely that these decisions would have been given five years ago. The high court would hardly have so ruled during the Stalinist period and the Korean or Indo- Chinese wars, The Committee on Un - American Activities reached its zenith when Amer- l¢a was genuinely afraid that communism might sweep the world and engulf the United States, and America was fever- ishly rebuilding its external ‘ and Internal defenses. Then the security of the state took precedence over the rights of the indivicual, as it always Goes In war. War, hot or cold, is- the perennial enemy of per- sonal freedoms and invariably reduces the srea of what is considered to be tolerable. These decisions are, there- fore, an expression of restored confidence. They indicate that the highest court of this Jand, and the ultimate guardian of its Constitution, believes that greater rights of individuals are no longer incompatible ‘with the security of the state; 7 that ere, essentially, War measures can be amel- ah 9) @JUL 8 1957 ah Re a A VY Ferrey ey: i id / DOROTHY THC ‘THOMPSON .The Passing of aU.S. Threat ° Se ae i etre ee + rm i ens ‘ : Confident_View Taken of Supreme Court Rulings as Sign U. S. Traditions Prevajf) 4 The Supreme Court decisions rhave fung down the custan jorated; and that we can safely move back into the great American tradition. That 4s what I meant by aay~ ying, in @ previous column, that ‘the decisions are not revolu- tionary but the opposite. They give one the comfortable feel- ing of coming back home, where there have always been cranks, radicals of every color, would-be overthrowers of the social order, ideclogists who yearned to shatter the world to bits and then remold it nearer to thelr heart's desire, aati ao roe rs ~~ al ie | De Tol —— One awfully tyrannous. "Edmund osen Burke was « conservative, and Tamm 201 the extent to which he is be- ing revived in American uni- versities is also cheering, It's a beautiful day up here ‘in Vermont. The heat wave has ubhated. The weather ia enerkiing and sateaar Tha wand. OMG RAIg BM Nate, 20S Wires chucks have been gassed in th perennial beds or departed f other gardens. And the poltt cal weather is brighter, too Happy Fourth of July! up the flag! Trotter Nease Tele, Room Holloman Gandy & "i tolerated because we were sure |. they coudn’t do it, and re- garded by both the state and soclety, not as dangerous men-_ aces but as nulsances and crushing bores. The decisions are reminis- |, cent of Jefferson’s first inau- gural address, uttered at a time when America was suffer- ing from the backwash of the French revolution, the original ideals of which had been Growned in bloody injustices, and whose leaders also were conspiring on an internaticnal scale, Jefferson himself being under suspicion. “Reaction- aries” were packing their trunks In Washington prepar- ing to flee the coming Red | terror, when Jefferson deliv- ered his immortal address as limpid and confident as light. I find an element of humor in the fact that Justice Tom Clark, formerly prosecuting at- torney of President Truman ("Communist charges are red herrings”), was the lone dis- senter, and that the rehabili- tated State Department official was fired by Truman's Secre- tary of State, Dean Acheson, idel of the “liberals.” Mr. Jus- ' tice Harlan, who was strongly influential in forming the decisions, is thoroughly con- servative. . Rut, again, the consery ptive mind has usually been! the guardian of edom against the excesses ‘of “de- _mocratism” that can be so Wash. Post and ! Times Herald Wash, News woo Wek aH soy WOSO, OFF _ spr 4 ac N. Y. Herald Tribune N. ¥. Journal- American N. Y. Mirror 7 N. ¥. Daily News N. Y. Times Daily Worker The Warkar | 1H WO eat x Foe New Leader ree [oz b2-2Z “AT? & Gm Foe JUN 27 1957 NOT TTOORDED "> WAL 5 1957 *.