Communist Activities Among Youth Groups, Based on Testimony of Harvey M. Matusow: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session [and Eighty-third Congress, Second Session]U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 |
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Page 5838 - The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time investigations of (i) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (ii) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and (iii) all other questions in relation...
Page 5838 - CONGRESS The legislation under which the House Committee on Un-American Activities operates is Public Law 601, 79th Congress (1946), chapter 753, 2d session, which provides: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * * * PART 2— RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RULE X SEC. 121. STANDING COMMITTEES ******* 17. Committee on Un-American Activities, to consist of nine Members.
Page 5838 - Constitution, and (iii) all other questions in relation thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary remedial legislation. The Committee on Un-American Activities shall report to the House (or to the Clerk of the House if the House is not in session) the results of any such investigation, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable. For the purpose of any such investigation, the Committee on Un-American Activities or any subcommittee thereof, is authorized to sit and act at such...
Page 5838 - STANDING COMMITTEES ******* 17. Committee on Un-American Activities, to consist of nine Members. RULE XI POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMITTEES (q) (1) Committee on Un-American Activities. (A) Un-American activities. (2) The Committee on Un-American Activities...
Page 5841 - You have looked over your former testimony and studied it this morning; have you not? Mr. MATUSOW. No ; I have not, sir. Once I gave the testimony it was given and it was fact, and fact does not lose anything in time. Mr. CLARDY. You have had a copy of the transcript this morning, or of the report? Mr. MATUSOW. No ; I have not seen it. Mr. CLARDY. I thought you had. Mr. MATUSOW. There is no necessity for it, I don't think. Nothing I have said in that testimony or in the 25 or so times subsequent...
Page 5843 - Now, will you, for the benefit of the committee and for the benefit of the public tell how you prepared yourself to give this testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities on February 6 and 7, 1952? Mr. MATUSOW. It started, I believe— I first met Mr. Appell during the world series in 1951. I was in the Air Force, stationed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Mr.
Page 5840 - Activities met, pursuant to call, at 10 : 14 am, in the caucus room, 362, Old House Office Building, Hon. Harold H. Velde (chairman) presiding. Committee members present: Representatives Harold H. Velde (chairman) , Kit Clardy, Gordon H. Scherer, Francis E. Walter, and Morgan M.
Page 5842 - stability," do you mean it has been confirmed since that time? Mr. MATUSOW. That is right, sir; and I have been able to reflect from my past now instead of living in it. A few weeks ago I testified here in Washington before the Subversive Activities Control Board. I believe it was on the case of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and also on the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. I was asked in cross examination about a specific...
Page 5842 - ... record, to this Communist counsel who desired me putting the names of the so-called innocent persons in the record. In other words, I was not putting the names in the record in the direct examination. I was not doing what the Communist Party claims the witness does before the committee, indiscriminately dropping names, as they say. Relating to the specific question, 2 years ago I wouldn't have realized what was going on with this clever maneuvering, shall we say, of the counsel for the Communist...
Page 5845 - ... is also in receipt of information that Bishop Oxnam spoke at the First Methodist Church in Evanston, 111., on some date in June of 1954. Mr. MATUSOW. May I see that statement in the paper ? Mr. TAVENNER. Yes; in just a moment. And it is reported to the committee that in the course of that speech he referred again to you in substance as follows : That Harvey Matusow came to him at some meeting in New York at a time when he was very busy and wanted to speak to him. It was in between sessions of...