Abstract

Editorials

This article focuses on various political developments in the U.S. The promotions of Charles Evans Whittaker, newly appointed to the United States Supreme Court, have been so rapid that it is hardly fair to say that he has had "judicial experience." As he himself has remarked, "it looks like I can't hold a job." Justice Whittaker put in only two years on the federal District Court and just a couple of months on the Court of Appeals. As Val Peterson, U.S. Civil Defense Administrator, was testifying before the U.S. House Government Operations subcommittee on February 18, 1957 his attention was directed to press comment urging him to give favorable consideration to a nation-wide nuclear bomb shelter program. "When I see comment," he' said, "which starts out with the sneering, snide, smart, smug approach, I think the writer has not looked the problem squarely in the face."