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...Attorney General's special assistant in charge of the grand jury investigation, Henry A. Schweinhaut, announced flatly: "A definite forgery." But "The Hopkins Letter," he said, was a forgery on genuine White House stationery. White House stationery was found to be available in the Department of the Interior's offices...
...government had been trying to maintain that a little group of Trotskyites, whose party claimed the grand total of 5000 members, was conspiring to overthrow the established order, and constituted a real danger, it would be merely laughable. But Assistant Attorney General Schweinhaut abandoned completely the doctrine of "clear and present danger" which has been established for a generation by the highest court in the land as the basis for prosecution in cases involving expression of opinion. He claimed that any expression of opinion which might possibly lead to acts of violence was illegal...
...Smith Act is sustained, and Mr. Schweinhaut is upheld, the next 150 years look very black for out Bill of Rights. The decision of the Menneapolis Federal Court is being appealed; but in time of war, appeals of civil liberties cases are likely to suffer. It is all the more important, therefore, that a determined effort be made to call this appeal to the attention of every man who is fighting now or preparing to fight for his rights and for his democracy. We fought one war to achieve our Bill of Rights. We must not let another war destroy...
Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose sister calls him Christlike, last week named the man to run his new Civil Liberties Unit: Henry A. Schweinhaut, the special assistant who prosecuted civil-liberties violations in Harlan County, Ky. and in Jersey City. Besides protecting liberty's delicate flower, Mr. Murphy last week received the grubbier task of rooting evil weeds out of the Federal judiciary...