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...South and the Grand Old Party," leaves little doubt about the Young Republicans' attitude toward the Party's racist component. Calling for Republicans to uphold the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the report demands expulsion of members of the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society from the G.O.P. "If it was necessary to become `respectable' after Reconstruction by expelling Negroes from the party," the report says, "it is imperative that today's `respectability' involve the rejection of right-wing fanatics and night-riding bigots...
...professors felt, Howe said, that the activities of HUAC were so objectionable that even the seven Ku Klux Klansmen cited for contempt by Congress last week should not have to submit to what he called "Congressional harassment." Robert M. Shelton, the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, Inc., and six of his associates had refused to answer questions on the activities of the Klan...
Having assumed jurisdiction, the Court must then address itself to the merits of the case. Bond alleges he has been deprived of his right of free speech assured by the 1st Amendment. The suit argues: "Had a member of the Ku Klux Klan or the John Birch Society or the White Citizens Council spoken against Federal policy he would have been cheered." Punishing Bond for exercising his right to speak out on U.S. foreign policy or to admire the courage of anyone for any reason does indeed violate the letter and spirit of the Constitution...
Robert Shelton, the sallow-faced Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, seemed to have lost his tongue last October when the House Un-American Activities Committee began holding hearings on the Ku Klux Klan. In the two days that he slouched in the witness chair, he "respectably declined" to answer any questions of substance, taking the First, Fourth, Fifth and 14th Amendments 158 times. Most insistent were his refusals to produce Klan financial records, despite Chairman Edwin Willis' warning that his intransigence could bring him a citation for contempt of Congress...
Last week it did. Louisiana Democrat Willis started contempt proceedings against not only Shelton but six other United Klan nabobs (including four Grand Dragons, an Imperial Klass and an Imperial Kludd) who had been equally uncooperative. If the citations are approved by the full committee and the House, the Klansmen will be subject to prosecution and sentences of up to a year in jail and $1,000 in fines each. That prospect, at least, unclammed Shelton. He was not in contempt of either Congress or the committee, he snorted, but only of the "martini-bibbing, character-assassinating and truth-twisting...