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Witnesses testified that the C.P.U.S.A. was not a party but a conspiracy, an agency of Russia designed to weaken the U.S. Said FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover: "The Communist [he pronounced it Commonist] Party is a fifth column if there ever was one. It is far better organized than anything the Nazis had." But he felt that outlawing the party was no answer to the problem...
Smooth "Dickie" Mountbatten, who hoped to soothe India into unity for self-rule by June 1948, was greeted by grating news. The governments of one princely state and two provinces, representing 70,000,000 (about one-fifth of India's population), served notice that they meant to set up as independent states when British rule ended. They were prosperous Travancore, heavily Moslem Sind and Moslem-run Bengal, scene of some of the worst Moslem v. Hindu disorders in recent months. That was doubtless only the beginning of Mountbatten's troubles as (probably) the last of 20 Viceroys...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). An all-Mendelssohn program: the Octet in E-Flat Major, the Fifth (Reformation) Symphony, Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...first concert will include the Concerto in C Major for Two Pianos, Cantata No. 161, "Come, This Lovely Hour of Dying," the Concerto for Two Violins, and the Fifth Braudenburg Concerto. It will be jointly conducted by Dunn and Irving G. Fine '37, assistant professor of Music...
WASHINGTON, March 26--In a thundorous scene, a Congressional committee ejected the General Secretary of the Communist Party from a hearing today and later heard FBI Chief Edgar Hoover denounce the Communists as a "fifth column...