THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1955.
A hard-hitting lawyer of high principles, this man might well be next President of the United States—if he can be persuaded to run for office
THE MAN WHO COULD BEAT STEVENSON
LAMEDA County, California, is A bustling. rich, sun- drenched strip of
By Les Armour
laud across the Golden Gate from San Francisco. It in-
He was A
And created equal Republican.
and to l cludes Oakland, a light in
California was solidly Democrat, titled to life, liberty, dustrial and commercial But Warton won. The po- pursuit of happines centre with a population of 100,000, and Berkeley, the seat of the Universty of California.
means were glad they hadn't laughed too publicly. But they all ank: "lt won't last."
When his term expired, War- en announced quietly that he It i a place you night would suck bath the Republican choose
wantod If you
to and make a forlune; it is not a place you would choose If yond were looking for ex-
citement.
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the Democratte nominu-
Thui, curiously, is theoretically prostite ut California as it is in many other US states Noming- Thoms are made as the result of Everyone "primary" elections. But, thirty years ago this who registers himself a Demio- autumn,
Alameda erat in the state is entified the County Board of Supervisors - Vasto, in state-operated elections the choose the Democratie can- elected a young man called d date. Republicans are entitled Eurl Warren their district in regater for similar elections.
WIEL And Warren did attorney. He was 34: he lusd been deputy district at. primaries. torney for five years, and before that he had been clurk to the judicial com.
mittee of the state legisla ture.
He was a young man with ideals, but the sage in habitants assumed that time
would bmpur these.
ZONE SWOOP
both
cn-
and the they
meant exretly that
And, when the first and fifth Amendment to the constitution guaranteed free speech
and a free pres, Warren believes the framers Intended to permit no deviations whatsoeVET,
had not proved dead
and present danger" created by stion advoctey before it can be held Ulegal. The current vlow wolves that condition.
Warron, however, has con- stantly warned against "hysteria" and witch-hunting.”
"We are living in an emotional ake." "he said not long ago. "In- sinuation has replaced ovidence and villlection supplants logic. Epithets, slogans and catch phrases abound, until we become lost in a mate of rhetorical bitterness. We muk cultivate Che habit of knowing the difference between history and gossip, between evidence rumour.
THE MOOD
and
no-
Those convictions showed up clearly through his Term Ita governor a term which
lasted 10 years.
He passed legislation from pulling freedom-freedom economie tyranny as well na
the force of insinuation. When freedom of every other kind NCE he had reason to know into action. He passed legisla ho was nominated Chief Justice, tion to mutke equality, equality Senator Langor, chairman of the of opportunity at least, a reality. Sonate Judicial Commitee,
They slowed
In 1948 fused to pass on the nomina- hapless tion until ten charges alleging when he thn with the
"100 Tom Dewey na Repablican can- that he was
percent didate for vice-prendeni. It is follower of the Marxist
line." que possible thus Dewey that he had "knowingly appoint- weighted dishonest persons and judges" by lining himself up as u solid while he was Governor of Call- and undevinting supporter of formia and that he "had wil- He was swept inte office as a
"non-partisan." He disposed US big business. Warren might fully permitted coruption," had
i have saved the election for him.
been answered. of both political machinga one fell swoO}}.
But they have shown The American
Map mare clearly since 1933. The Federation of Labour backed hum
two years in which Warren has all the way, and the Congress of
been Chief Justice of the United Organisations (the Industrial
States have been momentous other bit American labour T-
yes in US judie al history, ganisation) fought him tooth and
When Warren
le sak that was a non-partisan, he meant it. Hi political appointees eme and often parties from both from no party at all California'a
They were in for a shock. hall.
CLEAN-UP
WARREN immu diately WA
launched a clean-up cum- paign: il stock swindlers, race track gamblers.
boot-of leggers, the Ku Klux Klan nil fell Awiftly under his barrage of well-aimed, hard. hitting prosecutions.
He sent the sherifT tu gaol for graft and gambling, and the Mayor of Alameda, the county seat, to prison for bribery.
KINGPIN
even
HE US Supreme Court is the kingpin in the whole con- stitutional machine. It along cun decide what legislation is con- stitutional and what is not. It
alone can decide which rulings of the lower court are to hold and which are not.
Department sif Public Works and for years been in the hands succession <! poilical icks, and it was known as one of the biggest "gravy trains" in the whole of the United States. In those two years the Court In 1942, the voters watched to las ruled that segregated schools see which political hack Warren is which Negro und white would nams to the offer. He children ure kept Opurt are named none. Instead he up. illegal. It has followed that
Charles pointed
Purcell, B ruling with series of others out- engineer world-famous
whose lowing other forms of racial interest in politics was nil.
segregation. Result: California hus the best roud system in the country. Not a single conviction, Warren campaigned vige vous- out of the hundreds hely for an expanded social secur- Ity system: he Increased old age xxcured, was ever reversed pensions, improved fair-employ- by a
His .ent legislation and attempted higher court. knowledge of the law and to launch a state health service. legislature stopped the his passion for facts him unassailable.
left health service plan: but on the wida front, ranging from the widows' pensions to unemploy- At the height of campaign, a reporter asked ment insurance, he was success-
him for a statement. War- ren's reply
ful.
was just une BELIEFS
sentence: "I never heard a
For
enemies dubbed
It has ruled that censorship of films, on any grounds other than the mrst outragemus ob- wenty, is illegal-and It hus sill not said that even thasa grounds are constitutional,
It has ruled that military courts can have no Jurisdiction over civilians even when thos" civilians are ex-servicemen and the alleged crime was com- multed in the service. That sel troc yining 171 who weyl
came
to Communist China at the end of the Korean War and changed their minds and home to find themselves charged the with treason.
Be it said. however, that, af the
same time the Cour! has also changed ils views on eon- stitutional freedoms in order to primit
the prosecution of Com- mus
never
jury bring in a verdict of H policy "creeping socialism." guilty but that I felt sick
Warren simply Irughed and at the pit of my stomach." quoted Lincoln who said: "I am
Ho never had quite a show walker... bul enough frets to satisfy walk backwards.
The record, he added completely the demands of
this: "The radical wil be satis- nothing short of revolutionary change. actionary will be satisfed with nothing short of retrogression. The 70 or more percent is between make the decision
his conscience: there was fed with always a chance that an in- nocent man had been found guilty.
EMOVED UP SUCH
a wave of convictions
for the nation."
The
TU
He ranks himself with them. And there is a "right" as well
That is a matter of principle with Warren. But it should be clearly realised that the principle on which Warren eperates has mething in common with that on which Senator Joseph R. Me- Carthy operates.
DIFFERENCE
might, in a country noted for as a "left" in his thinking. He WARREN believes
Its corrupt polities, have ruined has constantly Warren's career.
Bul
Warren War un bureaucracy. stayed on as district attorney lleves that must
tha!
the
that any waged all-out
man who openly advocates He be the overthrow of the US Govern- Koverning 13 - ment by force can be justly said to have broken the one condition for 14 years, then moved up to better done by the states than become state attorney-general
which constitutional freedoms by the federal government
If Congress believes depend. His record.
only for the reason competence, nis 14 und his conscience had by that smaller the unit of government, that such advocacy is dangerous. time become almost legendary the less the danger of bureau- then Warren is prepared to be- Neve that Congress is within its the cracy. Even now, underworld has never dared to He also believes that what rights.
But the Court has never held move back to Alameda County the founders of the United States in any force.
wald, they meant; and that their that it is illegal, as such, to be
a Communist, Three years
later, Warren words are to be taken seriously
States The difference between decided to run for Governor, until Congress and the
current view of the Court and The politicians laughed-but, unend them. quietly and privately,
He believes, for instance, that the past views of the Court is "We that, in the past, the Court has There was Just
founders said: thing when the One
men to have been held that there must be a "clear wrong with Warren as Governor. belleve all
In the state,
the
THE MOST DANGEROUS
MAN IN
IN CYPRUS
From DAVID BURK
Nicosia. sabotaged in and around
RITISH security Athens
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And they know he came to the Cyprus to take personai com
B1198 benoverar Cyprus terrorists ats doing mand of the terrorists-inbustier
and
the routing
he
the past of the most dan in
around Nicosia, and exe:cito gerous man in Cyprus Limasol, and Famagusta to learned so long 630 secretly in
Athens, day.
a Greek they call the Colonel,
He is George Grivas, 55. year-old, groying, sturdily bullt Greek Army officer, an expert in guerilla warfare high school in Cyprus, where he wa born, Tor Athens
As an 18-year-old he left
tacka
It is believed that Grivas
So, somewhere la a mountain brought several old comrades village, or even in a back street Greek Army officers-to Cyprus of Nicosia or Limasol, the my- with him.
stery Colonel has his head- eritre, where he plans his at- on Belilah soldiers, and sucs his order to lerrorists.
No one at this moment known of the kind the Cyprus Military Academy. And here where that place is,
that terrorists have now taken nounced his British nationality
It is known, however, up,
In 1928 to take a Greek Army until recently: Cypriot terrorists commission.
went to Athens for their train- the He should be. British- But during the war it was ing. Now they get it on.
Island oficera trafied him as an possible to be a fervent patelot Islan
and pro-British - 400 Today anti-Natiruerilla in the art one of those Greeks that Grivas is ctill on the drask There seems to be no douirt Greek mountains during the who no longer ballaven that Army payroll, though he has hel Security men know he dies been soon in uniform since he appeared recently from the retired in 1948. He claimed then Athens stone, and that somehow, that he was roing into politics: he entered the island illegally,
"COPYRIGHTY -
Working with the British eraided, "pillagi and
CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN
fman who could possibly defeat Adia Stevenson. And he could defeat Adla! Stevenson only be
principles, there
I will not run; nominated. elected, I will not serve."
Warren said: "When I accepted (the Chief Justiceship) it was with the axed purpose of leay- stil That is Ing politics Senator
my purpose. It is irrevocable. L it under any will not change circumstances or condition."
It turned out that the charges to Senator Lud been brought Langor's alleation
# Tro- by skylle who was wanted by the California
police and
voted Ge Langor eventually Warren's appointment.
in the happy Warren
He has denied Supreme Court. that he will even stand for the
in
terms
sharper Presidency than these used by any potential candidate since Sherman cabled "It the Republican convention:
*.
But that was on April 15 this before President Elsen- year, hower was stricken with curon- ary thrombosis.
If Elsenhower does not run 1 appears that Warren is the only
cause.
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Itle or nothing between them. The country is probably still in mood, other things being equal, to vote Republican, War ren could make "other things equal."
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