Evening star., 1942-06-07
Is Are Graduated
By 6. u. Law School,; /;
Fahy Is Speaker
Solicitor General Says
U. 5. Freedom Faces
Its Greatest Threut

GEORGETOWN Universitys Is grad
yates. some of whom wore uniforms
instead of academic robes, were told
yesterday afternoon by Solicitor
General Charles Fahy that our Con-
stitution and Declaration Of indie
pendence face "the most ominous
threat" ever launched against any
nation.
Freedom in the highest sense Is
under attack" he warned at the
annual commencement exercises, in
reminding that this country Is called
on "for all its courage, strength,
genius and endurance If it Is to sur
vive" the real aims of the Axis
powers.
They have struck us, and mean
to end the Constitution, to destroy
the principles of our Declaration, to
abolish our democracy, to possess
and and rule this country" he de-
clared. There can be no question
about this"
Degree Conferred.
The Solicitor General spoke, &C
cording to the citation Of q doctor
of laws degree conferred on him
in Castor Hall by the Very Rev.
Arthur A. OLeary, S. j., president,
as one who "has known the ways of
war in the previous worldwide con-
flict." A few years after his grad
uation from Georgetown law school
in 1914, the citation pointed out, Mr..
Fahy was awarded the Navy Cross
for heroism in line of duty in France
as naval aviator and night bomber.
ut Is with pride that Alma Mater
watched his distinguished services
to his country abroad; today and
for these many years past, she has
admired his service to the Govern
ment at home"
Playing the New Order" as seek
ing to rule the thoughts and con-
science Of man." Mr. Fahy declared
1t has let itself loose to dominate
and subjugate the world" But he
warned the Axis that mo nation
has become a convert
The task that lies before us in
preserving our liberties IS more
difficult than we are likely to be-
Geve today" he told the graduating
class.
Our Responsibility.
1--WE shall not submit when called
upon to preserve our Nation and
the dignity and integrity of hu-
manity," he declared. 1T is our
responsibility to preserve them now,
so that we and our posterity may
be able to live in peace, not only
free of fear and want, but free to
work out our own sojourn here on
earth, en- route to eternity with
liberty of thought and of con-
science"
The Rev. Francis E. Lucey, S.
j., regent of the law school, read
the Georgetown charter signed by
President James Madison and act
ing for Dean George E. Hamilton,
he presented the members of the
graduating class for their degrees.
A number of the graduates had
received kilograms from the Army
and Navy yesterday ordering them
to report for duty.
Referring to the display of uni
forms in the class and in the faculty
as well, DR.. OLeary told the young
men that Georgetown expects them
to "be true to the principles you
have learned" The honor graduate
of the class was Maj. Charles Low
man Decker, West Pointer.
Class Of II Dimes.
Later in the evening, the president
and officials of the law school were
host to about SIS members of the
Glass Of 1917, most of them war vet
Grams, who held a reunion dinner at
the Mayflower Hotel. Some came
from distant points. Francis w. Hill,
jr.. of the District bar, was president
of the class.
Other officers attending included
Neil j. Burkinshaw, former Assistant
United States Attorney; John B.
Dickman, jr.: Earl P. F.. Ready, T.
Gillespie Walsh of the Commission
on Mental Health of the District
Court and Jerome F. Barnard. Rep
resentative Harness of Indiana, Wal
ter L. Fowler, Budget Director of
the District; Judge E. Stedman Pres
colt of Rockville, Md, and South
Trimble, solicitor, Department of
Commerce, were among the mem
bers of the committee in charge of
the dinner.
Degrees at the commencement
were conferred on eight seniors of
the graduate school and 81 under
graduates as follows:
Master of Laws.
Thomas Nelson Arnett, LIB,
Georgetown University-Labor Law.
Dissertation: The Appropriate Bar
gaining Unit Under the National La
Dor Relations Act.
George Davis Cary, LIB, George
Washington University - Constitu-
tional Law. Dissertation: Tort Liza
bility of the Federal Government.
Henry Merritt Cunningham, LIB,
Georgetown University-Labor Law.
Dissertation: The Derisability of
New Concept of Independent and
Company Unions Under the National
Labor Relations Act.
Samuel Meyer Greenbaum, LIB,
Georgetown Observation-Disclosures.
Dissertation: Plenary, Summary and
Concurrent Jurisdiction Under the
Bankruptcy Act.
Paul Lawrence Gregg, S.J., LIB,
Georgetown University - Jurispru-
dence. Dissertation: The Pragma-
tism of Mr.. Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
Robert Dolor L'Heureux, LIB,
Georgetown University -Constitu-
tional Law. Dissertation: The Power
of Congress to Control the Media of
Information In Times of Emergency.
Bernard Isaac Nordlinger. LIB,
George Washington University -
Taxation. Dissertation: Federal In
come Tax Aspects of Dealings by a
Corporation in Its Own Stock.
Robert Littel Pierce, J.D.. Univer-
sity of Michigan-Labor Law. Dis
sertation: Labor and the Antitrust
Laws.
Bachelor of 1aws-Francis Bou-
&e1le Allen Tipoothv Peter Ans.