OPINION: A System That Works

In a Denver speech last week, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, a one time New Dealer, a Brandeis disciple, and the youngest member of the Court, examined the cold war and laid down a program for action. Said Justice Douglas, in part:

"Against a living democracy, the assaults of the Communists will be unavailing . . . Communists assume that the basic problem in society is class warfare. But the only real aristocracy we know is the aristocracy of individual initiative and achievement. Men who work in overalls today can become corporation...

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