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WeExr 2.. eax L B7O82 oe @ : Teoerbor 17) 29% _ should also consider whethar tha Rofugee Relist Act, which expires at the end of this month, should be extenisd to daal with tha preasing need to give these refugees & havens" The Hungarian tragedy, Malin caid, mekea dranatically clear tha need for neral revision of Anerican immisration lews, Perticularly the need to eliminata Mecrininatory barriers based en naticnsl origin end to provide epeadier entry . ough careful removal of unnsocessery seourity investigations. NUDIST AGAZINES CHALLENGE WAY YORK CITY CaNSORSHIP The publishers and distributors of two officiel mgazines of nudist organizations havo petitionsd tho Kew York Surrene Ceurt for an injunction to stop New York City ore ficials from preventing newsstand sale of their publications. In 2 nav brief on a leng-pending case that has been tried twice without a resulte ing decision, the plaintiffs argue piainly that suppression of thair magaz ins violaies the free speech guarantees of both tha New York State and the Federal constitutions. Ths suit was bogun in 1952 after EAward T. McCaffrey, Naw York's commissioner of licenses, ordered 1,200 city n: ecerators to step handling Sum: and Sim Magazine on penalty of losing their licenses. Resides MeCZTIP suit also named asa defendant forrer Folice Cexmissioner George P. Monsghan of Kew York City. Since the case first arose the pressure cn the newsstand eperators hes ceased, but the case is being pi d to win a court ruling that city officiels hav.no authority to act as censors in this menner. "Under the First Avendment the plaintiffs hed as 1uch right to publish and dis- tributes their publicetiers as the doily newepapers in Mew York have in Puolishing and distributing t! Assves," the trief ccncluded, "leCaffrey's assured role of censor sseDarticularly with respect to the supcression of future issws..,is in direct con- flict with rights of the pleintifis ed, while the clessic censor passes upon the propriety of printed natter which he Las seen erd appreisad, the dsfendant ¥eCaffrey here claims ths rover to ccn’ dz advance matter not yet written.® The brief argued in addition that Meleffrey had viclated du process clausar of the State and Federal constitutions because he failed to notify the ublie fhers of his action cr grant them a hearing; and that the word "ods: which the icense commissioner ded to the rm es, “is nota s i y nite ons Npen which to fod any system of pricr restraint.” In th: atter ecnnection, Counsel for the plaintiffs reninded the court of changing stardcrds of morality from year to year, as well as over longar periods of tive, Thay held that Health and Sim Meeazine could not ce judged obscene by ary reesonable 5 TEACHERS JOB RIGHTS 1 ey IN_LECAL PROEEDINGS & complicated lagal skein has been woven by court procssdings involving teachsrs in New York City who are challenging their employment disriesal for refusing to anewar Questions of Congrsssional investigating committoss. muber of Tew Terk City toschers and Charter beccuse they od by Conpressions? e Y provision The etory becan in 1952 college proressorsa ezdsd their pri ittess probing al eecleres thet the cle and 1953, when dismissal sors of ths wachers brought did not cone will y dies, not of the Clty, and visitor did ies that had no su municipal ved thea of the circus tar dnant te the tnited States 3 ac gusrantes: Constitution, In 15h, the New York state Court of Arpeals ruied l te 3 thet the charter pro- Visken did apply and sustained tro disnissels without discussion of tha censtitutécral sua of dw procdss, Tne teachers than 211 appealed to t 2 Undisd S Court, waich > cas? of one of then, Professor ry Sleckower appeals ox cir dus procass siste Court of Apreals, ime ita position, (ihe inited ications) Us state byst acted cn 8 simi?