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...several state legislatures have recently passed laws which strike at free speech. And, today, before the Congress is the Mundi-Nixon bill. This bill, if enacted into law, would set up a politically appointed Subversive Activities Control Board, would require the registration of all organizations vaguely characterized as "Communist-front," and would impose criminal penalties for violations of the various provisions. Taken together, all these provisions may well lead to the suppression of minority views which look to reform rather than revolution. For the bill sets forth no standards by which the prosecuting officials and the courts could fairly determine...
...championed the rights of teachers whenever he thought them abused. Though never a Communist, he found himself in sympathy with many of the works of the U.S.S.R. and the Communist Party. Of Russia he wrote (From the Heart of Europe, 1948): "It knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives the dispossessed their only hope." He joined Henry Wallace's Progressive Party, lent his name and prestige to other Communist-front organizations. He was a sponsor of the Communist-inspired Cultural and Scientific Conference...
...column goes on the cite Matthiessen's participation in the 1948 Progressive Party convention, and then devotes four paragraphs to listing his "Communist-front, or otherwise subversive" organizations...
...characteristics of a political party," "substantially dominated and controlled," and "operates primarily to advance, the objectives of." It is unfortunate that the wording is so loose, because the groups included in the definition are subject to severe restrictions. There is a correspondingly vague, though less stringent, definition of a "Communist-front organization...
...only two or three headline-catching tidbits for the Senate Committee. One was a passing reference to Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup ("An unusual affinity for Communist causes"). Another was the name of a suspect who turned out to be neither a Communist nor a State Department employee. She was ex-U.N. Delegate Dorothy Kenyon, onetime Manhattan municipal court judge, whom McCarthy accused of having belonged to "at least 28 Communist-front organizations...