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...Blow, whistling around foreign policy, also whistled around domestic issues. Senators argued over a resolution proposed by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver that the Senate Judiciary Committee investigate syndicated crime in the U.S. Republicans approved it. They looked forward to the participation of Michigan's Homer Ferguson and Missouri's Forrest Donnell, both members of Judiciary and both tenacious Republican investigators, knowing that they would get their teeth into crime and Democratic politics in Kansas City, and into the past affairs, for instance, of the late Charlie Binaggio...
...impatient. The Committee will got back to us main-landers again soon--unless the Mundt-Ferguson bill passes, in which case the formalities in jailing left-wingers will be much simplified. Or unless the American people tell their Congressmen in no uncertain terms that they still value political liberty...
Senators Mundt, Ferguson, and Johnston, the authors of this measure, are not going to do the actual listing of the "Communist" organizations themselves. For this purpose, the bill provides a three-man "Subversive Activities Control Board," under the Attorney General. These three men, drawing $12,500 a year each, will do nothing but sift all sorts of groups to pick out these which are "Communist political organizations," and "Communist front organizations." In addition to the working definition above, this Committee will have a list of eight criteria, all beginning with the phrase, "the extent to which," and none specifying what...
Considered as a whole, the Mundt-Ferguson-Johnston omnibus is a loosely-drawn and heavy handed attempt to put restraints on organizations which fall into these Senators' amorphous categories. Tomorrow's editorial will discuss the theories behind this type of legislation and attempt to find a constructive way out of the present "subversive" dilemma...
Chairman of the meeting on "Academic Freedom and the Cold War" was Ralph Spitzer, ex-associate professor of Chemistry at Oregon, who was dismissed for suggesting inquiry into the Lysenko theory of genetics. Spitzer attacked the Mundt-Ferguson-Nixon Bill since it,"perseribes thoughts for everyone...