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—_— . 1 The Need Is Desperate the Sppreme. Courts decision in the a of Jonn T. Watkins, labor leade: mvicted of contempt for refusing to name communist associates, may pro- foundly affect findings of the Senate | Anti-Racketeering Committee, The high | Mr. Nease Tele. Room -—. Mr. Holl) man _.. Miss Gandy .....- court reversed the conviction, Its rul- ing might even nullify all major con- gressional investigative activities. Some good may come of it, how- ever, in that it has stirred Capitol Hill as few events of récent months haye, | and if Congress geta angry enough it 4 Is quite apt to cut the Supreme Court back to constitutional size, Senator Kart MunptT (R., 8. D.} let it he knswn quickly that he je “com- pletely out ots aympathy with the whole trend of recent Supreme. Court deci- sions. They (decisions). are weaken- ty ing the internal security of thia coun- | try and strengthening the capacity of a oe en eae ee the communists to infiltrate Govern: ment positions and carry on their pur- poses to weaken and pervert freedom in this country.” Senator JOHN McCLELLAN of Ar- kansas, chairman of the anti-racketeer- ing committee, was equally biuni, end , along with it, he pointed out what he . Vf dD 4 C- {awe 4 asya ia the country’s greatest need. 0 “This decision,” he said, “coupled with other recent decisions of the Su- preme Court, prompt me to say that [ ‘ what this country needs most today in 2 Supreme Court of lawyers with i & reasonable amount of common fense, and who will apply it in deliberations rgther thaa follow untenable detours into a strange philofophy and unsound lagic to make the wrong decisions.” From @ standpoint of the nation's ‘ gafety, the need for the type of court ‘described by Senator McCLELLAN is desperate, THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS, TENN, DATE 6-70-57 f, “o¢ ae “NOT RECORLEL co , 44 Jui o 1957 oe : eee a bey —