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' : t i feetly control thelr. own "des- ‘torship and only theoretically ‘responsible to the people. But the answer any Soviet scholar{ Probably would give today -is}! that in America nine men, con- stituting a judicial dictatorship, i set forth “the supreme law of}: the land” and the people have “nothing to say about it except through the long and cum- |bersome process of amending ‘dthe Constitution to correct the :jerror of « Bupreme Court Secislon. ae - uation Reed's Stand % ‘Just, the other; day Stanley tReed, retired Justice of the Su- jpreme Court of the United). “States and one of the nine whot ghanded down the “desegrega-[ Stion’ decisions of 1954, made a speech before the « Califomis ‘JState Bar Association in which jhe outlined the remedies against @ wrong decision by the Su- preme Court of the United . He' {indicated clearly that such a decision is not declared: the! final wore and na pro om those whose judicial Pp josophy differs from that of ite ruling of constitutjorial: deci-| sions when their error becomes ing limited to that particular case, With the chance that it may be overruled and never be- come a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of ® diferent Yet there are those who ‘n- lsist that whatever the Supreme ‘Court says is final snd irreyoc- able and is “the law of the dand,” instead of “the law of {jthes case.” What Americans neal to know is more ut the® own institutions the ‘weaknesses thereof! as viewsd by. ‘ourfown statesmen dn h&tory las well as by jurists abroag. : © 1957, N.Y. Herald Tribune Tre, anteater 24+ nafs