Word: huac
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...illegal political action (particularly "treachery") reclaim for the Committee its right to thought control. Ichord has promised to expose every revolutionary group as well as those who "condone" this violence. This means, he emphasizes, concentrating on SDS and Afro-style campus agitators. William Colmer (D-Miss.), a member of HUAC, added that he was especially concerned about "Communists working with young people in colleges and even in high schools...
...CHANGE of name from HUAC to HISC will not affect the Committee's style. It may, however, save the old HUAC from the clutches of the law. Now pending before the Chicago Court of Appeals is the first serious challenge to the constitutionality of HUAC. The case stems out of Chicago hearings in 1965 conducted by the Committee in which several prominent citizens claim they were slandered. One of these included Dr. Jeremiah Stamler, a director for the Chicago Board of Health and associate professor at Northwestern. On hearsay evidence, and sometimes not even that, the late Joe Pool...
Ichord therefore suggested an alias, the "House Committee on Internal Security." No one, it is hoped, can challenge the constitutionality of HUAC if HUAC-as-such doesn't exist. Its supporters can sabotage the Stamler suit by inventing a new cover for the posse...
This logic has its flaws. It is doubtful that such a pathetic legal maneuver would fool the Court of Appeals or any other court, although Stamler attorneys had preferred to take on HUAC in its original form. The new Committee will inherit the same liberal enemies and the same inimitable style of the deceased...
Several Congressional opponents of HUAC, however, have seen the change as the first step in dismantling the Committee. Outright abolition has never been feasible. As Don Edwards (D-Cal.) has noted, a standing committee once established is immensely difficult to get rid of. By changing the name, these liberals hope to create a jurisdictional dispute between the Judiciary Committee under Rep. Emmanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) and the new HISC. Both claim the authority to investigate subversive activity such as espionage. If there is a dispute, then the Judiciary Committee might be able to absorb HISC as a subcommittee...