Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This month the Subversive Activities Control Board began hearings in New York to determine whether the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship should be compelled to register as a Communist front. The star witness: the Rev. William Howard Melish, chairman of the organization from 1946 to 1949 and still a prize member...
...other testimony Melish denied that the American-Soviet Friendship Council is Red-dominated and contradicted testimony by such ex-Communists as John Lautner and Fordham Professor Louis Budenz (who had testified that Melish was a party member). After testifying that he had written two stories for the Daily Worker, Melish was asked whether he knew that the Worker is the "official organ" of the Communist Party. His answer: "That's hearsay." Pressed to identify Communists who came to him for advice, Melish stood on his cloth: he claimed "ministerial privilege" to keep their confidences...
Last week, with serious doubts about Melish's story, the control board demanded that the friendship council produce secret minutes of its meetings. The council, even at the risk of a contempt citation, refused to submit the minutes...
With his old-fashioned gold spectacles planted firmly on his nose, Socialist Attlee spoke in his flat, toneless voice. The friendship of the U.S. was essential, he said. But "if there are differences, they should be stated." His theme was that vigorous U.S. policies in Asia might rile the touchy Communists and set off a world war with H-bombs. Said Attlee: "We are as anti-Communist as the U.S. . . . We oppose aggression, we oppose Communist infiltration tactics, we recognize the need for adequate strength; but we stand for peaceful coexistence...
Last week, at the big "Gundolf Send-Off," Culver City presented its visitor with a proclamation of friendship to take back to Oberhausen. Then, dressed in his best double-breasted suit. Gundolf said a few words of his own: "Everybody opened his door and I was welcomed into every house. You made...