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|* Nw I \Niversuif LOUIE —By Harry Hanan THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. ** DAVID LAWRENCE monpat. rzaatstT if. it.v> A-13 Brownell as a High Court Choice CONSTANTINE BROWN Viewed difficulties growing out of the Who'll Solve Cyprus Dispute? Precedent and a Notable Record congestion in the Federal Favoring Attorney courts. alike to friends and potential As General's Selection experience is helpful Turks Favor Transferring Big Issue Judicial long pay President Eisenhower has an Attorney General J. C. Mc- but most Presidents have foes will in the run interesting dilemma on his Reynolds in 1913 to be Asso- chosen to look to men in other From United Nations to NATO Council no dividends. vacancy ciate Justice. hands in filling the on branches of public life—either The realistic political men to join Greece itself. Turkey Spokesmen for Prime Minis- Supreme President Coolidge appointed Attorneys-General govern- the Court of the or at Ankara hope to get the would insist on a direct parti- ter Menderes told State De- caused by the Attorney General Harlan F. or members of United States ors Senators or support of the States cipation in the island affairs partment policy Stanley Stone in 1925 to be Associate Representatives United makers that retirement of Justice the House of to transfer the Cyprus dis- to protect the Turkish popula- Reed. Justice and President Frank- with a background of law in the event Cyprus is handed pute from the United Nations tion. likely again lin D Roosevelt appointed him practice though President over to Greece, as is Shall the President to the political council of the The Turks' reasons are appoint someone with judicial in 1941 to be Chief Justice. Franklin D. Roosevelt seemed under the self-determination North Atlantic Treaty Or- military rather than political. program, will eventually be- experience? Shall he select a President Franklin D. Roose- to favor law school professors. it Attorney ganization. The island IS only 43 miles experience a velt appointed Gen- Virtually all the men who come another Red air and man with as from the of Turkey and threatening Turkey practicing lawyer? Shall he eral Frank Murphy in 1940 came from the Department of Prime Minister Adnan Men- coast naval base Attorney Robert deres has Informed Secretary 650 miles from Greece. The than any other country. select someone from the Mid- and General Justice, though without pre- more H. Jackson in 1941 to be As- vious expci ience on the Fed- of State Dulles that presenta- Turks are at least as alert 'The argument that the strife dle West, as is being suggested, danger sociate Justices. eral bench, have made good tion of the Cyprus issue to the to the of communism among Greece, Turkey and because no one who hails from political They the President Truman appointed as Supreme Court Justices. U. N. would make it a as we are. have striven Britain would be healed by the that region now is on football to be kicked for 200 years to keep the highest court? Attorney General Tom C. Roger Taney was one of the about to surrender of Cyprus, and that Clark 1949 be Associate Chief the advantage of Moscow. Russians away from the East- Greece unwilling of these fit in to great Justices in his- would be to Two categories NATO political ern Mediterranean and are permit to put Attorney Justice. tory. and Chief Justice Har- The com- the Soviets their General Herbert Another instance that really high, mittee, hand, more worried than the rest planes Brownell. He is able lawyer lan Fiske Stone will rank on the other and submarines in the an belongs in the same class was too, his decisions put would judge? the merits of the of the free world when they island makes little impression with many years of successful as are may the appointment of Solicitor- in the perspective of time. case and debate it without realize that their efforts on realistic Turks. practice before the courts and Stanley in be nullified. argue General Reed 1938 lawyers will from ~ prejudice. It would be a frank They that Communists born brought up in Few dissent he was and by President Franklin D. and open discussion among al- Thev are concerned because Gieece, under the guise of Lincoln. Nebr., and is a grad- the statement that Justice in Roosevelt. truly judge «. Alexandria, the main port in nationalism, overthrow University Jackson was a able lies. could uate of the of This adds up to 10 justices Stanley Egypt, has become an im- the present government. A e and that Justice Reed POTOMAC FEVER The three litigants are all Nebraska. President Eis n- out of the entire 90 that have significant portant submarine base at the cabinet might act in reg- hower already has appointed made a record. members of the same family new served since 1789. but in the Attorney General Brownell FLETCHER KNEBEL of nations, dedicated to main- disposal of Soviet subs and ard to the USSR, as Egypt’! to the Supreme Court two men last 100 years the percentage years their mother ships. They be- President Nasser has done. judicial experience will be 53 old on Ethiopia from taining their freedom against with and is of appointees from the De- Wednesday of this week. He wants SBO million Ike because Egypt’s mak- lieve that the new Egyptian After all, the Turks point reported, therefore, ing “Egypt every- the onslaught of international to be lean- partment of Justice has been regarded trouble. Letter to Ike from U. S. citizen: has air bases have been built for out the Egyptians had no ing is as fair-minded and body communism. toward the nomination of 16 per cent and in the last 50 objective. From the days when upset at our house too. Please send five bucks." Russian use. They know how cause of complaint against the Attorney General * * Since the failure of Brownell be- years it has gone up to more editor-in-chief of the utter many Soviet "technicians” Western powers when they he was i•* - the - cause of his aide know ledge of than 22 per cent. Harry Truman will become a grandfather. Democrats fear British French Israeli are operating in Syria and are arbitrarily nationalized the legal problems. Law Journal at Yale Law military campaign against Federal The main reason why Presi- School, this will mellow him so much by 1960 that he'll say Stevenson aware of the stepped-up in- Suez Canal. And be an honor that comes Egypt, the chances of the one must Precedent also can be cited dents have inclined frequently usually a high standing can win—and Stevenson will believe him. filtration of the Red agents naive indeed, say the political for appointing Attorney to Cyprus question receiving an an to the idea of appointing an student, he has been deeply * * * * in Iraq and Iran. leaders at Ankara, not to be- General. More than 10 per unbiased and equitable con- Attorney General is that this devoted to the basic principles Elizabeth and her duke are in Portugal Thus they feel that they lieve that Col. Nasser was not cent of all the justices ap- Queen re-united sideration have diminished. official more than any other of modern law with little ten- after four months’ absence. The duke got a bit weary. His wife being slowly prodded into action by the pointed to the Supreme The Greek government are surrounded Court man in the Federal Govern- dency stray toward the ad- acting queen of England something. by -long Russians, backed by Messrs. its inception have served to insisted on like she was or certainly aspires to remain their centuries from ment usually has a grasp of venturous school of thought * * * * Nehru and Tito. first in the Department of free and unfettered by inter- enemies while the West is all the legal problems con- in constitutional interpreta- establish advisory council. Bad for debating, to degree History, they repeats Justice. Democrats a national national communism. But na- some add. fronting the Government. Thus tion. His ardent advocacy be- the party. Once the Democrats start taking advice, they're all academically, the Soviet itself and Moscow’s next tar- President Buchanan ap- in the last four years Attorney tionalist agitation in Greece fore Congress of broader legis- liable to turn Republican. threats to the free world. get may be Greece, once she pointed Attorney General General Brownell had to for union with Cyprus has has lation in the field of "civil • * * * The Turks fear that becomes the of the im- Nathan Clifford in 1858 to be weigh of disputes reached such proportions that our dol- owner the merits in rights" may hurt him with Ike shoots wild turkeys in Georgia—thus setting to rest lar diplomacy of giving aid portant Cyprus real estate. Associate Justice. every controversial field rang- it is doubtful if a sober solu- some of the Southern Demo- the criticism that all he does in Georgia is play golf. problem McKinley ap- * tion to the can now President ing from anti-trust to civil off- * * * crats but this would be be found. pointed Attorney General rights. He brings to his present set votes would by the he get Experts predict the boom will continue. It depends on - Joseph to post experience gained The Turks are convinced McKenna in 1897 an in for that very reason from the Jones. We all anxious to keep up with the Joneses that terms legislature of re so that within the U. N., the dis- be Associate Justice. five in the "liberal” Democrats.
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