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Show ALERT ! ! ! The question of "Constitutionality" "Constitution-ality" was brought up not too long ago in the North Atlantic Pact. How did you line up on this. John G? Well. I agreed with those Senators who voted "no", they more fully represented how I feel about the matter. I am not against the principle of the Pact but I do sort of feel that it could have been constitutionally drawn, and I do most deeply feel that we must not undermine our Constitution. I also feel it is very dangerous danger-ous to hazzard in anyway the right of Congress to declare war, yes even if it is mere expedient perhaps for the President to do so! If we maintain the type of intelligence we should have, in Government and in the Services, there should never be any need for such expediency anyway. Besides Be-sides it seems to me we are throwing nur vhnl twvprnmpnt. al set-up out of balance with this giving more and more power to our President. In times of crises yes, but it is strange how so many of the powers given in such times have never been relinquished. It is at least something to think about, isn't it? The Constitution defines the powers of all three branches, the Legislative, the Executive and the Judicial, and we would be wise to adher to those specific spe-cific definitions I'm for the representative who also believes that in order to keep America, American, we've got to KEEP CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERN MENT! This leads us to the most recent re-cent example of the question of constitutionality. It is of course the Korean stand. What a hue and cry has been raised Just recently about so many things--I am very glad that this is so. You and I, John Q, are arousing and we're going to ask a lot of questions and we're going to demand an answer! As far as the foreign situation is concerned we've been a long way ahead of our leaders of today. We knew, you and I, or at least there were quite a few of us knew that the Russians should have been stopped at Yalta we remembered the Chamberlain appeasement failure. Weve been remembering it ever since. Potsdam? Pots-dam? Sometimes it seems to me that all of our American ingenuity ingenui-ty is to be found at the bottom our leaders seem to be utterly devoid of any originality or real diplomacy. Sometimes as I really real-ly size these men up I have cause to wonder if there is something some-thing tragically wrong with our way of life at the present time that the supposedly outstanding men of our country should be so lacking in even the rudiments of statesmanship or good common com-mon sense! At any rate, you and I are tired of "licking the boots of the Russian Bear"! Now please don't try to foist that old one off on me about "hindsight being better than foresight", because here it Just plain don't make sense. Hundreds Hun-dreds of books in our libraries throughout our country told the story of Joe Stalin-and the communists. com-munists. Over 40 years of com-munism--to a person in anyway informed-rang a bell of warning. warn-ing. Davies' "Mission to Moscow", Mos-cow", sponsored by F, D. Roose-vi Roose-vi It, couldn't make me and a lot more like me boliovp that |