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...Kefauver Committee invited him to appear in Miami and testify. He refused. Angrily, the committee, now organized under the chairmanship of Maryland's Senator Herbert O'Conor, who was once a governor himself, slapped a subpoena on the governor, ordering him to show up in Washington this week. Warren challenged the committee's power to remove him from Florida and thus "restrain me from the discharge of my responsibilities as chief executive of a sovereign state." He appealed for advice to South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes, onetime Supreme Court Justice, and got some support...
...committee backed Russell's ruling 18-8. The Republicans themselves split 6-6. Unabashed, Wiley cried: "It is the committee majority which has been partisan in its frantic desire to cover up and whitewash." While his colleagues kept a pained silence, Wiley declared that the committee should subpoena Harry Truman himself. This was too much for Chief Republican Strategist Robert A. Taft, who disowned it as something that "constitutionally couldn't be done...
...declined to testify before the Kefauver committee because it would not appear before him at Albany, decided that a crime probe was a pretty good idea after all, if he was running it. He set up his own five-man crime investigating committee, gave it $250,000 and subpoena power and told it to look into ties between crime and "any unit of government anywhere in the state." He also ordered a special grand-jury investigation of Saratoga Springs, the horsy spa only 30 miles from the governor's mansion where gambling has been going on for years, though...
...Ferrer got his chance to make a speech, after all. As winner of the best-actor award (for Cyrano de Bergerac), he telephoned to the Hollywood gathering a message, broadcast across the U.S., which pointedly raised an echo of the movie industry's hottest current issue. Under subpoena by the House Un-American Activities Committee, Ferrer, who firmly denies any Communist ties, said: "This means more to me than an honor to an actor. I consider it a vote of confidence and an act of faith, and believe me, I'll not let you down...
These are perhaps remote considerations. The chance of a subpoena being served on Dean Watson for the YP membership lists is very small. There is no reason to question the good faith of University Hall in protecting the secrecy of the list in other cases. But the YP is worried about its lists. Minority opinions are so unpopular these days that men who hold them are to be excused for excessive caution. It is important to afford the holders of these opinions all possible protection...