OR CONTROL THE COMMUNIST PARTY

OF THE UNITED STATES

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

House, SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION OF THE
COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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EIGHTIETH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H. R. 4422 and H. R. 4581

71315

PUBLIC LAW 601

(Section 121, Subsection Q (2) )

FEBRUARY 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 19, AND 20, 1948

Printed for the use of the Committee on Un-American Activities

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CONTENTS

FEBRUARY 5, 1948

Testimony of—

Hon. Karl E. Mundt, Member of Congress from the First Congres-

sional District of South Dakota__

Hon. Tom C. Clark, Attorney General of the United States_

Hon. Gordon L. McDonough, Member of Congress from the Fif-

teenth Congressional District of California_

Robert R. Milam, attorney, Jacksonville, Fla..

Walter M. Bastian, attorney, Washington, D. C.

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16

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Hon. George A. Dondero, Member of Congress from the Seventeenth

Congressional District of Michigan__.

3

54

-Louis Waldman, attorney, representing Amalgamated Clothing

Workers, CIO...

102 -

FEBRUARY 9, 1948

Testimony of

Admiral W. H. Standley (USN, retired), former Ambassador to

Russia

147

Samuel N. Birnbaum, department judge advocate, the American

Legion, Department of New York

163

Panel of the following members of the District of Columbia Bar

Association:

Kenneth N. Parkinson, secretary, District of Columbia Bar

Association.

178

Edm nd D. Campbell, member, board of directors, District of

Columbia Bar Association_.

182

Dr. Charles S. Collier, professor of constitutional law, George

Washington University Law School...

184

George E. McNeil, president, District of Columbia Bar Associa-

tion.

187

FEBRUARY 10, 1948

Testimony of

Edgar C. Corry, national commander, AMVETS

199

Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney, American Civil Liberties Union___

Selma Borchardt, attorney, Women's Bar Association of the District

of Columbia _ _

208

240

George M. Dimitrov, former secretary, Bulgarian Agrarian Union -

Charles S. Sullivan, chairman, committee on un-American activities,

Veterans of Foreign Wars___.

311

368

James Burnham, author; professor, New York University.

379

Hon. E. Wallace Chadwick, Member of Congress from the Seventh

Congressional District of Pennsylvania__

394

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