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Though the House committee's strategy was to hit first at what Georgia Democrat Charles Weltner called the Klan's "Achilles' heel"-its murky financial practices-there were hints that in coming weeks it would also be looking into the more lurid aspects of K.K.K. imperialism. Dragon Jones was questioned in vain about cross burnings and racist handbills that have been distributed in North Carolina. Kornegay took refuge in the familiar four amendments when confronted with a newspaper story quoting him as advocating "mass killings in Selma...
...weeks ago, you did a particularly perceptive job of explaining Congressman Gerald Ford of Michigan's Fifth District [Jan. 15] and now you have done it again with Congressman Charles Weltner of Atlanta [Feb. 12]. They are both intelligent, sincere, honest, and above all, make sense. The Republican Party and the Democratic Party need more men like them, and so does...
...Weltner is a promising young liberal. He vigorously supported the Civil Rights Bill, remained neutral on on the Mississippi Freedom Party issue at the convention, and was re-elected last yar by a constituency that has recently become 50 per cent Negro. Mr. Willis is an aged conservative. Less colorful and outspoken than former HUAC Chairman Francis Walter, Willis has nevertheless followed Walter's guidelines faithfully. Though he has never said so, Willis no doubt agrees with Walter's position that HUAC has jurisdiction only over Communist and left-wing political activities, an opinion that has for years drawn fire...
Last week Weltner proposed that the Committee begin investigating the Ku Klux Klan, the Minutemen, and the Black Muslims. Chairman Willis, clearly embarrassed, directed his staff to give the idea a "thorough look-see." The odds are against Weltner. Though HUAC, in the late 1930's, investigated the American Nazi Bund, it is doubtful that Willis and the majority be controls will permit the Committee to divert again its attention from the left...
...true value of Weltner's idea lies less in its chances of success than in its enunciation. Admittedly, HUAC operates unfairly when it overemphasizes the danger on the left and ignores that on the right. But, in the final analysis, the Committee is undemocratic not because of the victims it chooses but because it has the ability to choose victims in the first place. Since "un-American" has no legal meaning, the Committee enjoys the distressing power to define and redefine the word as it pleases. If Weltner's proposal effectively dramatizes this fact, it will have served what...