Some legal authorities welcomed he case as the first decisive test of the question which had been dis~ sussed in Congress and official circles jor many years.
Insular Affairs observers recalled hat few highly respected legal minds nad dissented on the prevailing opine on that Congress was empowered to Jispose of the terrorifics as was done in the case of the Philippines.
Tt was recalled that Senator Enest W. Gibson, Republican of Vermont, and the late Senator Royal S. Cope-jand frequently doubted this interpretation, One legal authority said that the chief obstacle to a definitive court decision might be Sri. Gancey's status rinee it would be necessary to establish that some injury of equity was involved.
They said that the mere existence a8 a citizen usually did not justify such action as taken by the Filipino lawyer—United Press,
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