Noteworthy Decision

This German decision invites comparison with the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. By paltry and pathetic word-juggling that Court picked a groping way from the Dennis case to the bizarre decisions of last June. Like Sputnik, these were somewhat out of touch with terrestrial realities; but they were sufficiently loaded with Liberal clichés and commonplaces to quadrate with the regnant conformisms respecting civil liberties. The several Justices have created a kind of decisional harem, strident with jealous clashes of incompatible and precious ideas and fractured facts.

The difference between the German and the American adjudications respecting the Communist conspiracy is as marked as the difference between sight and blindness, comprehension and incomprehension, reason and jarring solecism. The German Court had a lawful objective (to curb the conspiracy) and found a lawful means to achieve it. The American Court had and has the same objective; but it subverts its avowed end by a futile dialectic which finds all practical means of fighting Communists worthy of condemnation.

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This German decision invites comparison with the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. By paltry and pathetic word-juggling that Court picked a groping way from the Dennis case to the bizarre decisions of last June. Like Sputnik, these were somewhat out of touch with terrestrial realities; but they were sufficiently loaded with Liberal clichés and commonplaces to quadrate with the regnant conformisms respecting civil liberties. The several Justices have created a kind of decisional harem, strident with jealous clashes of incompatible and precious ideas and fractured facts.

The difference between the German and the American adjudications respecting the Communist conspiracy is as marked as the difference between sight and blindness, comprehension and incomprehension, reason and jarring solecism. The German Court had a lawful objective (to curb the conspiracy) and found a lawful means to achieve it. The American Court had and has the same objective; but it subverts its avowed end by a futile dialectic which finds all practical means of fighting Communists worthy of condemnation.