Law Forum Speakers Talk Politics

Spokesmen from the Democratic, Republican, and "Third" Parties "looked at the record," "pointed with pride" at their own superiority, and came to the same conclusion, "vote for us," at last night's Law School Forum, held in Rindge Tech, on the subject "Which Party in 1948."

Senator James P. Kem, Republican of Missouri, get in the first cracks of the evening, claiming that the GOP "supported and stood on the principles of the Constitution." The Democrats, he said, were like a "one-eyed mule--a left eyed mule--leaning forever to the left and close to falling into the ditch."

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '88, associate professor of History, replied for the Democratic Party, which, he said, was the "middle force" resisting the "antediluvian reactionaries of the right and the Gideon's Army of soft-headed sentimentalists on the left."

Representing the "Third" Party, Congressman Leo Isacson of New York denounced government policies, claiming "the people are not disloyal to the administration; the administration has betrayed the people."

Senators Joseph O'Mahony, Democrat, and Owen Brewster, Republican, also defended their parties.