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a me ean tly tate i Another move, which we Nelwkhas' \ 3 great deal of merit, is the introduction, of bills by Senator O'Mahoney and Repre-' | sentative Keating of New York to re! strict the effect of the court's decision| fs the Jencks case, That decision appar-) ently opens the ‘FBI files to persqns) , brought to trial in criminal cases if testi-, mony derived from FBI sources is used ; against them. The O'Mahoney and Keat-} | * tng bilis would give the trial judge dis-} » cretion to deterntine what material from f the files, if any, should be available to, defendants, and we see no reason why, this would not meet the requirements of a fair trial.’ : This summarizes g part, but not all, of the criticism being leveled at the, goourt. This criticism may be distasteful! hig some people. But the court never has; been, and we know of no reason why it eae be, beyond the reach of criticism,| it has made mistakes before and_,{t will; ‘make mistakes again. When the court; deals with matters which involve issues in which the public 1s deeply concerned, it is only proper that those decisions, should fdce the test of critical analysis, The essential thing 1s that the critics | should be gonstructive, dispassidiree"ynd win aly, Ti | Siete ee . Fe ———e ee am coreg ee 7 ty oh