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...story behind the battle began with attempts by the House group to question Shapley about the activities of the CIO and National citizens Political Action Committees, the independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions, and the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, particularly in regard to the recent election contest between Joseph Martin and Martha Sharp...
...When Shapley refused to submit the records of these organizations because he had no authority to do so and was not even a member of the two PAC groups, he was ordered to appear before the House committee...
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...
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...