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ch ear while the President was on tour? might. be up against in Qik if the execution . were carried out.. We ve most people join Senator Fulbright. chairf . ! of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in Tinding it “very disturd- - ing” that American ice can 1 be “pressured by incipient mobs of students in a small Latin Amer- ican country,” students whose presumptuousness is probably equalled only ty their j ignorance of the Chessmag ~case. Is the status of Ameri ‘ican society so insecure, Many people. have lately asked themselves, as to be swerved from justice by considerations of ils Public Q ecis? Are we so fearful of Reetep our own laws? 7 Set ce i ee aa tsgliyeansnan OF « whose conscience as an op- ~ ment has been weighed * + Governor Brow: Ponent of capital puni down by the Chessman case, seemed only too eager: i to ‘have the State D: partment pro’ le him with an excuse for stoppin ig the march of la ‘ul proc: m telegram’s intentions have, | ; been made clear. Was it or ite House request to keep the coast a of the capital punishment issue io the ture, and that so far as the State Depart- As thin ngs Sia processes of law in n Death Row are at a standstill, the and many ns feel act pass of attains “That Chessman himself, his at neys and the more determined opponents of capi- ta! punishment, among whom is Governor Brown, do not share this concera does not tes sen its ac ing ee for 11 ye isa burlesque of just ‘ice; others co: viderwe of how scrapulous our system is’ to give the individual his due. But if it is a unusual” process, it could have b s cruel and unusual at any time by the of the defendant. Presumably } he i his 11 years strung out by a te ne Will b ne enfore he find 2 now ba. i ing capital punishment’s | ‘tion for a vote of the sis for reprieve? : There is futcte o