Word: huac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having attained a nearly unprecedented majority in the House of Representatives, the Democratic Party fell heir in January to several additional seats on the House Un-American Activities Committee. And, before HUAC Chairman Edwin E. Willis could spell Plekhanov, Congressman Charles L. Weltner of Atlanta had, without histrionics or controversy, slipped into one of them...
...liberal. He vigorously supported the Civil Rights Bill, remained neutral on on the Mississippi Freedom Party issue at the convention, and was re-elected last yar by a constituency that has recently become 50 per cent Negro. Mr. Willis is an aged conservative. Less colorful and outspoken than former HUAC Chairman Francis Walter, Willis has nevertheless followed Walter's guidelines faithfully. Though he has never said so, Willis no doubt agrees with Walter's position that HUAC has jurisdiction only over Communist and left-wing political activities, an opinion that has for years drawn fire from liberal Democrats and Republicans...
Last week Weltner proposed that the Committee begin investigating the Ku Klux Klan, the Minutemen, and the Black Muslims. Chairman Willis, clearly embarrassed, directed his staff to give the idea a "thorough look-see." The odds are against Weltner. Though HUAC, in the late 1930's, investigated the American Nazi Bund, it is doubtful that Willis and the majority be controls will permit the Committee to divert again its attention from the left...
...petition attacks HUAC as a "libelfree center for false accusation." "The Mississippi press," continues, "consistently smeared participants in the 1964 Summer Project: they relied primarily on HUAC 'citations' for their smears...
...HUAC," the civil rights workers' petition concludes, "is the fountainhead of the threat to an open society. It denies what we went to Mississippi...