Needed: Another Investigation

The American Civil Liberties Union, of which the New York chapter has in recent months emerged as the demolition wing, ought to take time out from its extravagant denunciations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities to investigate its own position, and the consequences thereof.

There was, to begin with a fortnight ago, the extraordinary ruling which Federal Judge Howard Corcoran, handed down at the instigation of the ACLU, enjoining the House Committee from holding hearings relevant to the question whether to endorse an amendment to the Internal Security Act of 1950. That ruling is sure to be struck down as a bit of judicial eccentricity, of interest only to inanity-collectors.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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The American Civil Liberties Union, of which the New York chapter has in recent months emerged as the demolition wing, ought to take time out from its extravagant denunciations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities to investigate its own position, and the consequences thereof.

There was, to begin with a fortnight ago, the extraordinary ruling which Federal Judge Howard Corcoran, handed down at the instigation of the ACLU, enjoining the House Committee from holding hearings relevant to the question whether to endorse an amendment to the Internal Security Act of 1950. That ruling is sure to be struck down as a bit of judicial eccentricity, of interest only to inanity-collectors.