THE WEEK

It is too bad there is no emotional seismograph capable of registering the competitive intensity of Liberal reaction to obvious legal abuses. Mention the possible denial of jury trial in the case of Southerners charged with disobeying an injunction in a civil rights case arising out of the school integration issue, and the Liberal will react with a languid: “But jury trial has never been a traditional right in equity cases.” The Liberal may be right, historically speaking; but no such appeal to history was made when it was a matter of enjoining labor unions against picketing or inciting men to strike. Then the Liberal’s cry was: “Stop this government by injunction.” The Liberal is there with bells on when it is a question of guaranteeing to Communists the right to silence under the First Amendment. But when it is a matter of using the closed or the union shop to deprive a man of his right to work under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Liberal comes through with a yawn. The Liberal is not concerned with general principles, which are necessary to the life of a great society. He is only interested in the primitive protection of his own.

With this issue, national review goes on vacation, as scheduled, for two weeks. We wish our readers a pleasant interlude. May our absence make your hearts grow fonder!

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It is too bad there is no emotional seismograph capable of registering the competitive intensity of Liberal reaction to obvious legal abuses. Mention the possible denial of jury trial in the case of Southerners charged with disobeying an injunction in a civil rights case arising out of the school integration issue, and the Liberal will react with a languid: “But jury trial has never been a traditional right in equity cases.” The Liberal may be right, historically speaking; but no such appeal to history was made when it was a matter of enjoining labor unions against picketing or inciting men to strike. Then the Liberal’s cry was: “Stop this government by injunction.” The Liberal is there with bells on when it is a question of guaranteeing to Communists the right to silence under the First Amendment. But when it is a matter of using the closed or the union shop to deprive a man of his right to work under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Liberal comes through with a yawn. The Liberal is not concerned with general principles, which are necessary to the life of a great society. He is only interested in the primitive protection of his own.

With this issue, national review goes on vacation, as scheduled, for two weeks. We wish our readers a pleasant interlude. May our absence make your hearts grow fonder!