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AME Ranublers cost less to own anil operate and deliver more miles to the gallon than comparable com- petitive models, See your Rambler dealer today. pl us bg fast operation _. ¢ 4, "addo-x” adding machines, 300 Park Ave, NY 22 60 The Man in the News | A COURT UNDER FIRE {continued ] Justice. wining praise From associates for the Wut he settled down to work, What Hughes said: Vhe Clack Jus. tice is the Coutts chief administrauve officer, When it comes Ga settlinig cases, however, be has oaths one of tine votes. Chief Justice Hughes wrote: “Phe Chief Justia: as head of the Court has an outsthaadings position, nat inaosmall body of able nen with equal authority in the making of decisions. it is evident that his actual iufluence will depend an the strength af his character and the demonstration of his wcbility. in the futimate relations af the judues.... “Comrage of conviction, sowid) leatn- ing. familiarity with precedents, exact hnowledge due to painstaking study af the cases under consideration cannot fail to command the profound respect which is always yielded to intellectual power conscientiously applied.” With no previous judicial experience, Me. Wirren of course lacked Biiow ledge of Tegal precedents. He set about cquir- fig it, clich His hemework thoroughls. Tn the conferences at which the Court comes to decisions, he spoke up confidently. His colleagues soon were privately prais- ing him for his industry and courage. The “liberal” Mr. Warren soon found himseTl Trequently aligned with Associate Justices Huge L. Blick and William 0. Doughis, who had been appointed hy President Roosevelt. The appointment of Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. by Mr. Eisenhower, gave the group an- ather ally. With the occasional backing af other and mere “conservative” Fus- tices, Mr. Warren found himself increas- ingly in the majority in’ disputed de- cisions, The segregation issue. The Chicf Justio’s first really — striking triumph came when he scarcely had been six months on the Court, This was the unanimous decision against racial segre- gation in the schools, ; As the story is pieced together by those ina position to know, tnanimity against segregation did not come readily. It had to be brought about slowly, by a painful process of compromise and ac- commodation., Mr. Warren exerted all his newly found leadership to obtain it. The decision was widely acclaimed by Northern “liberals.” In the South, and in some other quarters, however, if was criticized and coutinues ta be criticized as having no basis in either the jaw or the Constitution. In these quarters, it is denounced as primarily an assertion of Chief Justice Warren’s personal philoso- ph y. The racial-integration ruling has pro- voked widespread) defiance across the South. Defiance resulted) in the dispatch of fedend troops to Little Rock, Ark. te enforce integration there. Southern States have daalt ap oa complex of statutes: to preserve segregition, One by ane they are stick down be the conrts, But itis a Jone process and the end is scarcely in sight. Mawy of the Court's critics consider the segrepation decision an example of constitutional amendment by the Court, of Jegislation written by the Court. A distinguished jurist, now ino retirement, Learned Hand, of the U. §. Court of Ap- peals in New York City, recently said the Court had developed into a “third a International News Photo SENATOR JENNER drew wide attention with his bill to curb the Supreme Court legislative chamber’—that is, in addition to the House and Senate. Growing resistance, The*present re- sistance ta the Court, the “Warren Court,” as it sometimes is called, does not have the tremendous power of the Presidency behind it, as did the resist- ance of the Roosevelt era. The opposition grows, nevertheless, with every controversial decision. ‘There have been few of these in’ the present term of the Court. For that reason, some are woudering whether Mr. Warret and his colleagues are, at least temporarily, in retreat, When the tough decisions come, as they must, however, there are few indi- cations now—so far as can be seen--that Mr. Warren and his Court may yield to their critics. The battle line seems to have been drawn. [END] — U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, March 21, 1958