Investigation of Communist Activities in the State of Florida: Hearings, Parts 1-2

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - Communism - 178 pages

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Page 7287 - The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time, investigations of (1) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (2) 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 (3) all other questions in relation...
Page 7403 - 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 7380 - dedicated not to the broader issues of civil liberties, but specifically to the defense of individual Communists and the Communist Party" and "controlled by individuals who are either members of the Communist Party or openly loyal to it.
Page 7317 - I refuse to answer on the ground that my answer may tend to incriminate me and for that reason I have decided to invoke my constitutional privilege of the fifth amendment.
Page 7285 - Activities. (A) Un-American Activities. (2) 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...
Page 7440 - We will adjourn until 2 o'clock this afternoon. (Thereupon at 12 : 11 pm, the hearing was recessed, to reconvene at 2 pm, same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION (At the hour of 2 pm, of the same day, the proceedings were resumed, the same parties being present.) Mr.
Page 7438 - Would you tell us whether you knew him to be a member of the Communist Party ? Mr.
Page 7326 - I was appointed as a graduate assistant in the department of dramatic art at the University of North Carolina...
Page 7319 - If you will answer the question as to whether or not you are a member of the Communist Party at the present time, we certainly Mr.
Page 7294 - I think you are familiar with the party-line changes from day to day, and you did not know from one day to the next what was going to happen.