Word: browderism
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Between the fury of Earl Browder's cohorts claiming "martyrdom," and the sounds of rejoicing at his conviction, the American public has little chance of deciding sanely whether reaction or justice prevailed. The Goddess of emotion, not law, holds the scales. Too many liberal minds can be swayed by nightmares of a coming purge. Too many conservatives can ease their conscience in the pure and American conduct of the trial. But the error is not in the conviction but in the charge. The real question is whether passport violation should have been pressed in the first place...
...point Browder was treated not as an ordinary American but as the Communist leader, the government's case loses its foundation. To the future he may be a hero or a bum who belongs behind the bars. The latter judgement seems more reasonable. But neither belief should have entered into the charges against him. They did--and for this reason U. S. Attorney Cahill has no right to look the American public in the eye. By the very nature of its charge, the government has proved that it wanted Browder...
...government considered Browder a criminal, why did they dig up a charge of passport violation--a charge which is almost a stranger to the courts of law? The question, though a moral one, stands out like a sore thumb. To prove that Browder was treated like any other American citizen, the government will now have to convict all the evaders of passport laws--and there are plenty. It cannot let other offenders pass unnoticed, and still claim that Browder was not a marked...
...YORK Karl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party today was helped along a road which may lead to his imprisonment for passport fraud by a mild-looking, chubby old man who has admitted serving as an espionage agent of the Red Army...
...chief speaker Communist Earl Browder...