The WEEK

• Senator Wayne Morse said last week on the floor of the United States Senate that sending U-2 planes on spy missions over Russia was an “act of aggression on the part of the United States,” and added that if any President ever does such a thing again “he should be impeached.” Senator Morse seems to have lost completely his grip on reality. The gathering of intelligence information for defensive purposes is not and never has been considered an act of aggression, and a former dean of a law school should know that. And then to say that he would vote to impeach any President of the United States who takes peaceful measures to guard the security of this nation: i.e., to impeach any President of the United States who faithfully discharges his responsibility to serve as executor of the nation’s defense policy, is—is to talk as though one had been kicked on the head by a horse.

• The long-discussed Freedom Academy has finally received the support of the Judiciary Committee, and now goes on the Senate calendar. Under its terms, a paramilitary academy would be set up to undertake the training of counter-revolutionaries and counter-ideologists from countries all over the world. The effect would be to strengthen our foreign policy, to answer the Communists in kind, to diminish our reliance on massive and superexpensive weaponry. Our compliments to Senators Thomas Dodd, Kenneth Keating, Karl Mundt, Paul Douglas, James Eastland and Roman Hruska. And a special vote of congratulation to the four young men from Orlando, Florida, who conceived and, after six years’ work, got their Academy through the first and most formidable obstacle.

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• Senator Wayne Morse said last week on the floor of the United States Senate that sending U-2 planes on spy missions over Russia was an “act of aggression on the part of the United States,” and added that if any President ever does such a thing again “he should be impeached.” Senator Morse seems to have lost completely his grip on reality. The gathering of intelligence information for defensive purposes is not and never has been considered an act of aggression, and a former dean of a law school should know that. And then to say that he would vote to impeach any President of the United States who takes peaceful measures to guard the security of this nation: i.e., to impeach any President of the United States who faithfully discharges his responsibility to serve as executor of the nation’s defense policy, is—is to talk as though one had been kicked on the head by a horse.

• The long-discussed Freedom Academy has finally received the support of the Judiciary Committee, and now goes on the Senate calendar. Under its terms, a paramilitary academy would be set up to undertake the training of counter-revolutionaries and counter-ideologists from countries all over the world. The effect would be to strengthen our foreign policy, to answer the Communists in kind, to diminish our reliance on massive and superexpensive weaponry. Our compliments to Senators Thomas Dodd, Kenneth Keating, Karl Mundt, Paul Douglas, James Eastland and Roman Hruska. And a special vote of congratulation to the four young men from Orlando, Florida, who conceived and, after six years’ work, got their Academy through the first and most formidable obstacle.