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When he stepped down from the stand, Bromley Oxnam seemed clearly the victor over his congressional foes. The committee unanimously announced that it had no record of Communist membership by Bishop Oxnam. Some members began grumbling that they had never charged him with being a Communist, but only a "dupe," and at week's end they were implying that the subject was not closed...
...Valle confessed an extraordinary story: deep in debt, he had wanted to commit suicide by blowing up the plane. After first trying to get a dupe to take his place, he decided to kill himself in a way that would look accidental, so that his family could collect $100,000 insurance...
...Duped. After coming out of World War II in 1944 a sick and disillusioned man (he led a Navy orchestra in the Pacific), Shaw became a "dupe" for Communist-front organizations, he testified. He joined the Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, became "a pretty hot" member of the executive council, then chairman of the committee; he endorsed the World Peace Congress and the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace. Said Shaw: "I joined organizations with words I was interested in, like 'democracy' and 'peace' . . . For a while...
Despite his stellar role as a dupe, said Shaw, he had never joined the Communist Party. He was invited to join in 1946, assumed a "fantastic alias" to get into four "cloak & dagger" meetings, finally decided that he did not like the party's denial of free speech. Wiping tears from his eyes with both hands, Shaw said he had never meant to be disloyal. Said he: "I want to do everything I can, as I always have, to defend American institutions and American folkways. This country has been very kind to me. I started out as a minority...
...property and due process of law." When Chairman Harold Velde finally interrupted the tirade, Stander said he was shocked that the com mittee didn't want to hear about that kind of subversion. With obvious refer ence to Bandsman Shaw, he rumbled: "I'm not a dupe, dope, mope, moe or schmoe...