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...other testimony Melish denied that the American-Soviet Friendship Council is Red-dominated and contradicted testimony by such ex-Communists as John Lautner and Fordham Professor Louis Budenz (who had testified that Melish was a party member). After testifying that he had written two stories for the Daily Worker, Melish was asked whether he knew that the Worker is the "official organ" of the Communist Party. His answer: "That's hearsay." Pressed to identify Communists who came to him for advice, Melish stood on his cloth: he claimed "ministerial privilege" to keep their confidences...
Martin, president-elect, American Medical Association; James Wechsler, editor, New York Post; Professor Louis Budenz, Fordham University; Michael Fry, Reuters correspondent to the U.N. for seven years; and George Hecht, president, Parents Institute...
...figure of the NLRB's powerful years to refuse an answer to the Communist question. In both 1948 and 1950, Nathan Witt, who was the NLRB's assistant general counsel from 1935-37 and then its secretary until 1940, ducked behind the Fifth Amendment. Ex-Communist Louis Budenz testified that Smith and Witt were "under Communist discipline" while on the NLRB. Later, ex-Communists Whittaker Chambers and Lee Pressman swore that they had known Witt as a Communist...
...verdict, said Acheson, left him confused and disturbed. The board had neither "accepted nor rejected" but had "taken into account" 1) testimony by ex-Communist Louis Budenz who said that Vincent was a Communist, and 2) a finding by the Senate Internal Security subcommittee that Vincent was a fulcrum for pro-Communist influence in the State Department. "I am unable," said Acheson, "to interpret what this means...
Last week the President's Loyalty Review Board, which is a high court in such matters,† overruled State's vindication of John Carter Vincent. Said the LRB: "Without expressly accepting or rejecting," it had taken into account 1) ex-Communist Louis Budenz' testimony that Vincent was a Communist, and 2) the Senate Internal Security subcommittee's finding that Vincent had been a "principal fulcrum" for pro-Communist influence in the State Department...