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From that day of creation in May, 1938, the house Committee on un-American activities has been violently raked by critics of its methods. Opponents have charged, among other things, that witnesses have been handled with disrespect, and that various individuals have used the fair name of the committee for...
But the home-town Hitlers Dies produced for scrutiny scarcely answered his critics. The chairman got hold of George Deatherage, head of a tiny group known as the Knights of the White Camelia. Deatherage regaled the committee with his ideas concerning the need for booting radicals and Jews out of...
Deatherage, whose outfit would have had a hard time breaking up a Sunday School picnic, was merely exhorted to mend his ways, and sent home. As for larger game, Dies explained that if he treated Father Coughlin or Reverend Gerald Smith harshly, he might be accused of being anti-religious...
Three months after Pearl Harbor, the committee issued a report on Japanese espionage. It was a huge document, but as many well-informed individuals pointed out, its contents were largely known before-hand. Discomfited, Dies remarked that at least the report was "educational."
Dies preferred to consider himself beleaguered from left and right, and so did his comrades-at-arms. In 1942, during intense floor debate, veteran Diesman Noah Mason listed the committee's enemies. He named Deatherage, Fritz Kuhn, William Dudley polley, and several groups he claimed were Communist fronts. Then Mason...