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The nation’s admirable and energetic House Committee on Un-American Activities has drawn blood out of a Pike-staff: The “Social Relations” department of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of California, composed of clergymen and laymen from among Bishop Pike’s faithful, demands that the committee call off its hearings on grounds we seem to have heard before somewhere, namely: the committee has proved “so threatening to the private welfare of countless innocent individuals that the public conscience is and must be outraged.” Bishop Pike, the scourge of anti-Communism while he was in New York, has seen it confirmed, on moving to California, that sin is universal.

Vice President Nixon’s return from Moscow has given rise to a curious lament from curious quarters. There was the refusal of Senate Democrats to rise and applaud when Nixon entered the Chamber; followed by Senator Humphrey’s aberrant praise of Nixon’s Russian performance. Then there were the slow-motion gyrations of the Rockefeller ballet. Gyrations were to be expected (the necessities of political cynicism dictate them). But the spectacle of Rockefeller’s congressional supporters slyly hinting that Rocky hates Nikita more than Dick does, and Congressman Stuyvesant (“Rockefeller for President”) Wainwright’s radio warning that Nixon will have to take the consequences for bringing Russian leaders to the U.S.—both add up to something more significant than political maneuver. Apparently, some of the nation’s shrewdest politicians of the Liberal-left expect a debacle on the occasion of Khrushchev’s visit, and are paving the way to capitalize on it.

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The nation’s admirable and energetic House Committee on Un-American Activities has drawn blood out of a Pike-staff: The “Social Relations” department of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of California, composed of clergymen and laymen from among Bishop Pike’s faithful, demands that the committee call off its hearings on grounds we seem to have heard before somewhere, namely: the committee has proved “so threatening to the private welfare of countless innocent individuals that the public conscience is and must be outraged.” Bishop Pike, the scourge of anti-Communism while he was in New York, has seen it confirmed, on moving to California, that sin is universal.

Vice President Nixon’s return from Moscow has given rise to a curious lament from curious quarters. There was the refusal of Senate Democrats to rise and applaud when Nixon entered the Chamber; followed by Senator Humphrey’s aberrant praise of Nixon’s Russian performance. Then there were the slow-motion gyrations of the Rockefeller ballet. Gyrations were to be expected (the necessities of political cynicism dictate them). But the spectacle of Rockefeller’s congressional supporters slyly hinting that Rocky hates Nikita more than Dick does, and Congressman Stuyvesant (“Rockefeller for President”) Wainwright’s radio warning that Nixon will have to take the consequences for bringing Russian leaders to the U.S.—both add up to something more significant than political maneuver. Apparently, some of the nation’s shrewdest politicians of the Liberal-left expect a debacle on the occasion of Khrushchev’s visit, and are paving the way to capitalize on it.