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Despite the fact that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a state may not prosecute Communists who can be prosecuted by the federal government, District Attorney George E. Thompson of Middlesex County is planning to go ahead with the prosecution of Dirk J. Struik, suspended Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor...
...statement by District Attorney Thompson implied that Struik might well escape trial because of the legal points involved in the Nelson case. Thompson had said that he "had sent for the Pennsylvania, decision" and would "have to study it before making any final decision...
...discovered yesterday that Thompson had no intention of cancelling the Struik trial. "Pennsylvania law is not necessarily the law of Massachusetts. So far as I am concerned, there is nothing to prevent Mr. Struik's prosecution here," he declared. Nevertheless, he still maintained that he was interested in reading the Pennsylvania case...
...Struik was indicted with Harry E. Winner and Mrs. Margaret Gilbert, all on similar charges. Trial had been delayed since 1951 because of extradition proceedings involving Mrs. Gilbert, who resisted transfer from Illinois to Massachusetts...
...three can only wait. Struik sums up their position, "How is it possible," he asks, "that a government can accuse a man of trying to overthrow it by force, and then let him freely wander the streets for two years...