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From Yemen and El Salvador, Iceland and New Zealand, some 260 delegates journeyed to do homage to an organization that has power to subpoena none. They represented a total of 1.5 billion people. There, in the flesh, were black men, brown men and white, Communist and capitalist, Moslem and Confucian, atheist and Christian, vegetarian and carnivore. All told, 38 foreign ministers are gathered in San Francisco, among them the Big Four: Britain's Harold MacmilIan, France's Antoine Pinay, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. More than anything the assembled delegates...
...Attorney General should be empowered to subpoena private records of corporations during the investigative phase of civil antitrust cases...
...Passed a code for investigating committees that would ban one-man hearings, give any person involved in a hearing the right to subpoena witnesses with committee consent...
Abolishing one-man hearings should be central to any code of committee conduct, but equally important are a whole series of provisions for guarantees to the witness. He should have the power to cross-examine his accusers and to subpoena witnesses in his own behalf. Because accusations receive so much more space in the press than the replies that come afterward, the investigating Congressmen should be prevented from releasing their charges to the press until the witness has a chance to answer them...
Shortly after receiving the subpoena, Novikoff conferred with the president of the University, Carl W. Bergmann, and the University counsel, and a few days later appeared voluntarily at an informal meeting of the committee, attended by Senator Herman Welker (Rep.-Idaho) and committee counsel Robert Morris. After the meeting, Novikoff announced his willingness to go to Washington at his own expense and testify at a public hearing...