Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York came the day after he finished the job of prosecuting the eleven U.S. Communist leaders...
...Matter of Law. He made it clear that despite the outcries of leftists, the Communist Party, as a political party, was not on trial. Only the eleven were on trial-eleven individuals charged with criminal conspiracy. The jury was not to try to decide whether the whole U.S. Communist Party was a criminal conspiracy; that question was not before...
...Vegetable Life. When he was appointed to the Communist trial, he suspected what he was in for. He had studied the Washington sedition case of 1944 when the harassments of lawyers for the defense had exhausted Judge Edward C. Eicher, who died during the case, causing a mistrial. The well-ordered Judge Medina vowed that wouldn't happen...
Target for the Week. In a week of Red tantrums after the verdict, Judge Medina became the target for every type of Communist attack and abuse. Paul Robeson vowed that he would get Medina impeached. The Soviet newspaper Pravda carried a cartoon of Uncle Sam swinging a bludgeon labeled "Medina...
These were matters of small concern to the judge. Actually no one could have had a fairer trial than the one he had given the eleven Reds. Their resentment sprang from the fact that he had demonstrated a way to deal legally with the Communist Party in the U.S. The nation's highest courts would have to decide whether Medina's interpretation of the law was also constitutional...