The Unveiling

The Birchers were taking their lumps last week. On Jack Paar's TV show, Richard Nixon said that politicians "who accept or seek the support of organizations like the John Birch Society are not serving America." Barry Goldwater, wrote Conservative Russell Kirk, has warned that "responsible conservatives cannot condone political silliness." The conservative

National Review tore the society to shreds (see PRESS). And Father Benjamin L.

Masse, editor of the Jesuit weekly, America, wrote that good Roman Catholics could not be Birchers. There is, said he,

an "open and flagrant contradiction between the socio-economic teachings of Robert Welch and that of Leo XIII and his successors." At a Los Angeles rally, meanwhile, the Birchers unveiled Eddie Rose, a 23-year-old college student who had just won the society's $1,000 first prize for the best essay on: "Grounds for the Impeachment of Earl Warren." Eddie flunked out of the U.C.L.A. engineering school, attended Los Angeles City College for a year, is now taking extension courses in engineering at U.C.L.A. Off campus, he works as a weight analyst at Douglas Aircraft's Santa Monica plant. The Birch Society kept the text of Eddie's essay secret, but Eddie got the general idea across. On a television interview, he accused Earl Warren of following "the Communist line" in 36 Supreme Court decisions; he also recommended the impeachment of Associate Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and William J. Brennan.

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