Ninety Colorado legislators proudly traveled back to the four corners of the Centennial State last week. They were solemnly proud of not having done somethingthey had stubbornly refused to vote what they had been called into special session to pass. Their do-nothing was the loudest kind of slap in the face of Colorado's Governor John Charles Vivian.
Governor Vivian, excited by the Denver Post's black gothic headlines and red-tempered editorials, had called the session to pass a constitutional amendment to keep Japanese nationals from buying even one foot of Colorado's fair soil. About 1300 Japanese, pushed off the Pacific Coast...
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