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Second Thoughts on Walker
There have been some second thoughts on the abrupt imprisonment of former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker under conditions denying him bail.
By Lyle C. Wilson United Press International
Second thoughts because the conditions were changed. Walker was bailed over the weekend at half price.
SO THERE WERE second thoughts in official Washington as well as among editorial writers here and there. The point is raised that Walker waived preliminary hearing when he was arrested in Oxford, Miss. He had been told that he would be tried in that state and reasonably could have expected that he could be
Such was not the way it came about. The government put a $100,000 tab on Walker and within 24 hours cooped him in a mental institution where he was ineligible for bail, whatever the amount. Moreover, Walker was committed to a mental institution on the findings of a psychiatrist who never had examined him and by a judge who neved had seen him.
Walker's lawyers were winding up to compel the Kennedy administration to defend such arbitrary imprisonment of a U.S. citizen when the question became moot, as the lawyers say, because the bail came down and Walker was released. He still must subject himself to mental examination
freed pending trial under reasonable bond.
to determine if he is fit to stand trial. But the administration moved fast to prevent Walker from becoming a martyr to slick judicial procedure.
ROBERT MORRIS is one of Walker's lawyers. In his syndicated newspaper column, Morris remarks that when a federal judge ordered Walker into the mental institution, the prisoner was not in the judge's jurisdiction. Further, Walker had no lawyer at those proceedings.
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"It was a clear violation." Morris wrote, "not only of the (federal) statute but of General Walker's right under the constitution. Thus General Walker becomes the first political prisoner in the United States. The Walker case involves a dangerous precedent."
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1962___University Daily Kansan
What is Dos Passos trying to tell us? It was easy to discern this in "U.S.A." and "Adventures of a Young Man," and the reader recalls the tremendous thrill of discovering Dos Passos, his style, and his point of view. He has become a rightwinger, a virtual spokesman for the NAM and everything else to the right of Senator Goldwater. Some of this comes out in this long, interesting, and somewhat what-the-hell novel.
"Chosen Country" takes us through the Gilded Age in America, the nineties, the "good years," World War I, and the twenties. It is chiefly the story of Jay Pignatelli, whose father was a successful Chicago lawyer and who himself gets chiefly involved in pacifism and communism and the like, and Lulie Harrington (the best character in the novel), the daughter of a dreaming professor who probably represents everything Dos Passos most hates today.
The writer takes some predictable swipes at wishy-washiness and the far left, but the casual reader would not see that this is a Dos Passos greatly changed from the fiery militance of "U.S.A." Basically, this is just a disappointing novel, about in a class with Edna Ferber.—CMP
The burden of Morris' argument is that if it could happen to General Walker, it could happen to you or to me. The answer to that argument, obviously, is that it would not happen to either of us unless our enthusiasm for a given cause very considerably overcame our judgment in supporting it.
The courts must decide whether Walker is, in fact, guilty as charged. If he is guilty the government should, and probably will, throw the book at him. There must have been others in and around Oxford, Miss., however, who were insurrectionists and seditionists equally with Walker. Not just the college kids and red-necked hoodlums who rioted but others in the higher echelon of the rebellion.
WALKER IS CHARGED on four counts of serious crime related to sedition and insurrection. The General contends that in Oxford he merely was peaceably assembling as the constitution guarantees him the right to do so. The government says it has witnesses who will testify that Walker incited the Oxford mob to riot.
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