A recent attack on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Champaign, III., school case was characterized today by executive director Glenn L. Archer of “Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State” as “strange in its singling out of Justice Frankfurter from among eight Justice who voted to invalidate the ‘released time’ system at Champaign.”
Mr. Archer was replying to remarks made against Justice Frankfurter on Dec. 9 by Dr. James A. Pike, of New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine in an address at the Washington Cathedral. “Although the opinion of the court was delivered by Justice Black, “Mr. Archer said, “Dr. Pike, for reasons of his own, has preferred to deal with the decision as if it came from one man, Felix Frankfurter.”
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