1955-12-03 — Page 13

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

48

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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