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...Rankin's answer was that "the witness will be cited for contempt for refusal to answer questions and to produce documents in accordance with a subpoena." He told reporters, "I have never seen a witness treat a committee with more contempt...
Advised by Ernie Adamson, committee counsel, that he might have counsel present, Shapley brought Thomas H. Eliot to the meeting, along with a secretary, Miss Elly Thomas. But when the three of them entered the committee meeting, at which only Rankin, Adamson, and a Congressional reporter were present, Rankin ordered Shapley's assistance to leave...
...hadn't said a word." Eliot told the CRIMSON last night, "when Rankin cried 'clear the room' and 'call the guard...
According to Shapley, he was refused permission more than once to leave the room in order to consult with Eliot. When the scientist started to tear some personal notes from the bottom of a prepared speech, Rankin snatched the paper from his hands. Shapley told reporters that Rankin had "asked questions beyond the authority of the committee and had said that the record of the hearing could and would be edited by the committee...
...stand on my rights as an American citizens," said Shapley, "and will not submit to the star chamber methods of the gestapo used by Rankin. It is time that this most un-American of all procedures in this country is recognized as the Nazi method and that it be eliminated so that private citizens can be free under our constitution...