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When Committee Counsel Roy Cohn insisted that there was secret evidence, which he could not produce, that Mrs. Moss was a Communist, Arkansas Democratic Senator John L. McClellan bitterly decried "convicting people by rumor and hearsay and innuendo." When Mrs. Moss admitted that she knew a Negro named "Rob Hall" (whom Cohn identified by name as a representative of the Communist Daily Worker), a reporter reminded Democratic members in a whisper that the Worker's Hall (its longtime Washington correspondent) is a white man. Cohn blandly promised to "check" the discrepancy...
...Elizabeth Bentley never saw White," Schlesinger continues, "Her evidence was all hearsay. But Bentley did work directly with Silvermaster, and Ullmann. Since J. Edgar Hoover says everything she says is true, why not indict these...
...some unwitting state deifiers behind recent "broad generalizations and accusations" against the churches-presumably those made by members of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Said the bishops, quoting a speech by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill: "We are against trial by uninformed public opinion, against accusations by hearsay . . . The church is equally opposed to what may be described as 'creeping fascism...
...future of our long-established liberties . . . We heartily commend efforts being made by legally constituted authority to apprehend the disloyal and bring them to account, but we express our fervent hope that the agencies thus employed will so revise their procedures that no person will be condemned by hearsay, and that every person will have full opportunity to refute all accusations in the face of his accusers...
...objections to Bohlen were not made public. Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter F. George, defending Bohlen, said that the charges were based on an FBI investigation of Bohlen which included an anonymous letter, rumors, and hearsay reports that Bohlen had associated in the past with some "dissolute persons." One day last week, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spent three hours before the Foreign Relations Committee discussing the new charges in secret. After the long session ended, a reassured committee resoundingly (15-0) approved "Chip" Bohlen...