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et te ER RI iy a et CEE ad ace ° . fi _2- oY! (0 YO As 4 part of this propaganda, the American passport is being reduced to a meaning- less, purposeless scrap of paper that is no longer respected in many parts of the world 8 Cold War dead! How can any intelligent person who has any familiarity with current conditions in the world ignore the fact that we are in the center of the Cold War, probably in its worst period, what might be called the Egyptian pe— riod, and that there are all the dangers of a fighting war in the Syrian situation? ### There are wide differences of opinion concerning the Supreme Court deci- ; sions, some holding that they represent a reaffirmation of the Bill of Rights; others holding, as I do, that they can only lead to anarchy and that they imperil the United States. But it is impossible, under the American Constitutional system, to justify these decisions on the grounds that the American Jewish Congress does. Because what this pamphlet before me seeks to establish, it seems to me, is that the Supreme Court is a political rather than a juridical organ of government and that President Eisenhower packed the Court for this purpose and I quote from the pamphlet: . "As a result of these shifts of personnel, the core of conservative votes that dominated the Court during the Vinson era-has been replaced by a liberal group consisting of Justices Warren, Black, Douglas and Brennan. This bloc needs the vote of only one other Justice, in order to command a majority of the Court." The accusation here is not only against President Eisenhower, of abusing his power of appointment, but against the Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Senator Eastland, of confirming improper justices, and against Justices Warren, Brennan and Whittaker of accepting a seat on the Supreme Court bench for improper purposes. It is impossible to believe such nonsense, no matter how much one disa-~ grees with the opinions of the learned justices. < ###F Congress has corrected one of the errors of the Court. This is in the matter of the Jencks Case, the decision of the Court having opened the files of the FBI to kidnappers, murderers, Communists, spies and other criminals. It is true that the Supreme Court had no such intention, that its decision applied only to criminal cases and only required that such documents be made available to de- fense counsel as would assist the defense. However, already judges in the lower courts have been giving the Jencks Decision the widest interpretation, calling for the production even of raw FBI files. It is therefore absurd to assume that an undefined access to these files is safe; it only gives shyster lawyers a Roman holiday. The O'Mahoney Bill, in the Senate, was amended wnder the aegis of Sena- tors Clark of Pennsylvania, Javits of New York and Morse of Oregon who succeeded in so watering down the bill as to make it useless. The Keating Bill, in the House, was better, but the same trickery was employed, principally under the leadership of Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. However Celler's efforts failed and the House of Representa- tives passed a good bill. Ht # | As necessary as it has been for the Jencks Decision to be corrected by L y, : . 7 X,