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...thought of the Reds, onetime Party-Liner Field moaned: "After what I've been through, there is no doubt of my attitude. Their method is not the Dale Carnegie method of making friends and influencing people." Was Noel Field a Communist, as testified by ex-Communist Courier Whittaker [Witness'] Chambers? Said Hermann: "I have never known whether Noel was . . ." Could Hermann explain why Noel and Herta, after doing a five-year stretch in a Hungarian prison, elected last November to stay in "asylum" in Hungary? And what about Erika, last reported to be languishing in a slave-labor...
...news desk of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Carl Braden, 40, was a quiet, efficient copyreader whose work in the office never gave his employers any cause for complaint. But his work outside the office was another matter. Braden, a veteran newsman and former labor reporter for the Courier-Journal's afternoon sister, the Times, devoted most of his spare time to Communist causes. He gathered signatures for the phony Communist Stockholm "Peace Petition," helped direct strikes for the Red-led Farm Equipment Workers Union, wrote stories that ran in the Communist Daily Worker...
Before a grand jury investigating the violence, Braden refused to answer any questions about his past political activities. Police who descended on Braden's own house seized more than a hundred Communist pamphlets and books (sample title: "How To Be a Good Communist"). After he was indicted, the Courier-Journal did not fire Braden but gave him a "leave of absence" with pay on the "American principle that a man is innocent until proved guilty...
Surprise Witness. While the Courier-Journal "deplored" Braden's race-relations tactics, it defended his refusal to answer questions about his political beliefs as "quite correct." Many a reader disagreed. Communism, they pointed out, has long been recognized as a criminal conspiracy, not simply a political belief...
...Louisville seamstress who had been an undercover FBI agent, testified that she had not only attended a party-cell meeting in Braden's home, but had paid her party dues to him. With that clinching evidence of Braden's Communist activity and his conviction, the Courier-Journal at long last came around to agreeing with its critics, fired Braden...