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...Springing Osmans. Witness Arthur Osman, president of Local 65, shouted ringingly: "For every Osman you put in jail another Osman will spring up." On orders of Committee Chairman Charles Kersten, marshals ejected him. Jack Paley, secretary-treasurer of the same local, achieved similar treatment. His last words as he was hustled to the door: "I don't think the committee should be concerned with my politics...
...others also refused to answer what Congressman Fred Hartley, co-author of the Taft-Hartley law, called "the $64 question." Chairman Kersten said that all nine would be cited for contempt of Congress, punishable by a maximum of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Readmitted to the courtroom, Witness Osman shouted that the committee's action reflected "the corrupt, degenerate mentality of men who have made the House of Representatives a house of ill repute...
Later in the evening, WHRV will broadcast a recorded question-and-answer program sponsored by the HYRC, in which Republican Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon and Representative Kersten of Wisconsin will reply to queries put to them through the mail by members of the Republican Club...
Claiming to have been always firmly anti-Nazi, Dr. Kersten is a Finnish citizen who now lives and practices in Sweden. He declares that he treated Himmler (also Ribbentrop, Hess, Ley, et al.) simply to protect his own family. He was also instrumental, he says, in sending thousands of victims of German concentration camps to safety into Switzerland and Sweden. Documents reproduced in his Memoirs, and an introduction by Biographer Konrad (Hitler) Heiden, indicate that his claims are true. So also may be his reports of tall Nazi ambitions. Samples...
...Kersten says that some of these plans came out in Himmler's rubdown ruminations, but that he discovered others for himself by peeking through documents in SS headquarters. One day Himmler showed him a medical case history covering "26 typed sheets of paper" and asked Kersten if he would be willing to take the patient. Dr. Kersten says he refused, when he saw that the man's troubles included vertigo, insomnia, laryngeal polyps, latent tuberculosis, progressive paralysis, impotence and syphilis. The patient's name: Adolf Hitler...