NOTES IN THE NEWS
Notes in the News China James S. Duncan's comprehensive survey of "Comumnist China Today" which begins on Page 13 of this issue, strikes the Editors of The Progressive as one of the fairest and...
...Texas: Henry Gonzalez...
...At the rear of the agency Mr...
...His capacity to absorb adulation is boundless...
...Certainly it is one of the most difficult to combat...
...Among the fifty-eight voting for a hearing on the HUAC appropriation, the lone Republican was Representative John V. Lindsay of New York City...
...Fifty-seven Democrats and one Republican voted for a milder but still highly commendable move to send the appropriation resolution to the House Administration Committee for a public hearing...
...This may have had something to do with the rise in the anti-appropriation vote to twenty-nine (or thirty-two, counting the pairs), and the showing of fifty-eight members (or sixty-four, counting the pairs) in support of the proposal to subject HUAC's finances and activities to an open Congressional hearing...
...Yet the American Medical Association has mounted a huge war of opposition even to this minimum scheme designed to provide at least a little help for our older citizens...
...Denver, Colorado...
...First, in speeches on the Senate floor and elsewhere he has warned his colleagues and countrymen of the growing menace of the far right...
...This certainly is the least we can do to prepare for the inevitable recognition...
...There is no logical reason to think that an American medical program that parallels the highly successful Saskatchewan plan, now likely to become national, would work any less well in our own country...
...Huge corporations and multi-millionaires, including some of those who help bankroll far right operations, no doubt were highly gratified to learn that the National Council has closed its New York office and given up its radio projects...
...The projected plan would expand it to include doctors' fees and drugs...
...Gould, whose thoughtful commentary reflects the social significance as "well as the aesthetic content of television, has sharply criticized Hoover, and rightly so, for lending the name, the seal, and the closed files of the FBI to Warner Brothers for a program series to be co-sponsored by the Ford Motor Company...
...The distinguished Senator has emerged from a harrowing experience, far taller than before...
...It buys radio time and takes sixteen-page Sunday advertising supplements in Chicago and Los Angeles, and adds to its crew of public relations men and organizers...
...According to Keyserling, raising the nation's millions of poor above the poverty level would greatly enlarge the market for farm goods...
...If only ten per cent of the Birch political plan were achieved, the result would be thirty-two Birch Congressmen—a national disaster...
...In announcing the Council's collapse in Washington, Dewey Anderson, executive secretary of the Public Affairs Institute which was a principal organizer of the Council, said: "Three months ago I could get people like Earl Warren stirred up, but now everyone's riding along because things are quiet...
...I believe that if a similar case were to be decided today by the Supreme Court, that the Barenblatt decision would be overruled...
...The picture of shootings, bombings, blastings, street barricades, and guerrilla warfare evoked by the first five book titles seems at odds with the pastoral quality of the sixth title, How to Go Live in the Woods on $10 a Week...
...The United States, we believe, should not only proclaim a two-China policy, but should advocate a free plebiscite in Taiwan,., where nine million native Taiwanese are dominated by the two million Chinese who fled to Taiwan when Chiang was driven into exile more than a decade and a half ago...
...On the contrary, the number of practicing doctors in the province has climbed to 1,000, or nearly one hundred more than before the dispute...
...What is worse, as Representative John Con-yers, Jr., of Michigan reminded the House before the recent vote, the motion to give HUAC funds is a privileged motion with restrictions on time for discussion...
...In Wichita, Kansas, citizens have raised $30,000 to do locally what the Council had planned on the national level...
...Before The 'Battle' If you should be in Hollywood, drop in at the insurance agency run by Frank X. Ranuzzi at 5403 Hollywood Boulevard, but don't tell him we sent you...
...It plasters Houston billboards with the message "Join the Birch Society...
...Look over his book shelves, and you will think you have wandered into James Bond's library...
...Dr...
...The FBI is deeply involved in the delicate controversy over civil rights and racial integration...
...Most of the other contributions came from family-controlled foundations, including $10,000 from the Warburg Foundation...
...Hoover has by circumstance been pushed into the forefront of the greatest moral crisis of our time...
...There were widespread denials on the part of the power companies...
...Sabbatical for a Senator Senator Gale McGee made news twice during the past month...
...Of course, none of this can really happen, can it...
...What does this prove...
...We just didn't get anywhere...
...Representative Edwards, a sophomore Congressman who was selected by his anti-HUAC colleagues to lead the floor fight, warned the House of the Committee's vulnerability to overturn by the Court...
...Ohio: Thomas Ashley...
...Hawaii: Spark Matsunaga, (Mrs...
...We feel cross enough about one of his news-making utterances in the Senate to suggest there is a direct connection with the other...
...The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association recently accused 106 of the nation's largest private power companies of overcharging their customers a total of $3.4 billion in the seven-year period ending with 1962...
...The notion intrigued us, but we thought no more about it until a few days later...
...Copies are available from the ACLU, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010, at thirty-five cents each...
...By the end of 1966, says its founder, Robert Welch, it hopes to have 325,000 members and a $12 million annual income...
...For four months he had to remain in tight-lipped silence while the Department and the district attorney investigated...
...One hopeful result of the National Council's efforts is that local councils to oppose the ultra-right have developed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California...
...It is the conventional wisdom, for example, that there are far too many farmers...
...This has intensified the urban unemployment problem...
...Ironically, because a few unscrupulous doctors in Saskatchewan have been taking advantage of the province's guarantee to pay medical bills, The Wall Street Journal reported, "The Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons, once a bitter foe of the government plan, is cooperating on a contemplated change in the law which would permit the government, with consent of the College, to reduce fee schedules where a particular service is abused...
...Bridgeport, Connecticut...
...Maryland: Carlton Sickles...
...California: George Brown, Phillip Burton, Ronald Cameron, Ken Dyal, Don Edwards, Augustus Hawkins, Robert Leggett, James Roosevelt, Edward Roybal, John Tunney...
...He believes that our policy of non-recognition when the Communists came to power in China "was an error of great magnitude," but that to reverse that policy today would represent an inexcusable betrayal of our solemn commitments to protect and defend the independence of Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan (Formosa...
...In the view of the Conference, there is no such thing as a true surplus of food as long as there are hungry people anywhere...
...We believe it proves wrong those sophisticates in Washington, New York, and other centers of editorial and political punditry who have tended to shrug off the threat from the right wing ever since President Johnson trounced Barry Goldwater last November...
...One of the fears expressed by the AMA is that government bureaucrats would take control of medicine by such devices as imposing fee schedules...
...After study of some 750 printed pages of evidence and testimony, the grand jury indicted these three men along with Krause: Jack Clemmons, a police sergeant who resigned from the force after refusing to testify...
...As a result, he said, "Never has there been more than one hour of debate on these appropriations...
...We do have one quarrel with Mr...
...But then one would hardly expect Hoover to be involved in show business, either...
...The keystone of Keyserling's farm program is that it welcomes rather than fears abundance...
...No Business in Show Business Jack Gould, the distinguished television critic of The New York Times, seems an unlikely choice to tangle with Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover...
...Theoretically, such overcharges could not occur if the regulatory agency system functioned as it should...
...Furthermore, the conservative financial journal reported, "a national plan...
...In the long run, the image of the FBI would shine more brightly if the director could place some restraint upon his vanity and refrain from cheapening his agency through a commercialized plan designed to extol its virtues while concealing its vices...
...McClelland told the inquiry that neither man was Kuchel...
...Utah: David King...
...The first-year goal was $500,000, to be spent principally for broadcasts countering the 7,000 weekly programs put on by the extremist coalition...
...We believe, and we have said so for more than a decade, that the interests of the United States and the cause of world peace would best be served by U.S...
...Keyserling estimates that as much as fifty per cent of excess unemployment is attributable to this flow of manpower from rural to urban centers...
...It opens offices in Washington, in other cities, and in the suburbs...
...Without Senator Kuchel's knowledge, a copy was placed in the files of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, headed by Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland...
...At present, farm income averages only sixty per cent of non-farm income, and forty-three per cent of farm families, in contrast to seventeen per cent of non-farm families, live in poverty...
...The outline of events developed by the investigation reveals, according to reliable sources, that Sergeant Clemmons informed Fergus and Capell of the supposed "arrest" of Kuchel...
...Taken together they seem to indicate a trend that could sound the knell of HUAC before the House musters the courage to abolish it by transferring such proper functions as it may have to the House Judiciary Committee, where they belong...
...the rise in farm productivity (efficiency) in the past decade is three times that of non-farm productivity...
...If their Canadian brethren can live so congenially with an almost totally socialized medical system, it would seem that American physicians could welcome rather than reject the minimal medical program represented by Medicare...
...It is apparent that Hoover has embarked on a public relations project designed to restore luster to the image of the FBI, somewhat dulled by criticism of the agency in the Warren Commission Report and by civil rights leaders, and by the blundering comments of the director himself...
...Today "the rightists can literally raise millions, but the educational side can't raise a couple of hundred thousand...
...The Birch Society expects to better its 1964 income of $3 million by a wide margin in 1965, and this year double its present membership from 80,000 to 160,000...
...Elizabeth, New Jersey...
...After a series of visits, Fergus and Capell persuaded Krause to sign the affidavit which by autumn had been widely circulated...
...Frawley is one of those far right tycoons who grow livid at the thought that Senator Kuchel, a Republican and GOP whip in the Senate, might well capture the Republican nomination for governor of California in 1966...
...Under this kind of economic pressure, farmers by the hundreds of thousands have left the land for the city...
...Conceivably, recent court decisions requiring the redistricting of state legislatures might improve the composition of regulatory boards...
...Frawley himself is a strong Birch supporter...
...Entitled "The Case Against the House Un-American Activities Committee," it is a thirty-six page brochure which documents "a quarter of a century of failure...
...Furthermore, current surpluses have been greatly exaggerated —they have averaged less than two per cent of consumption in the past decade...
...In spite of an auspicious launching by more than one hundred civic, educational, religious, and business leaders, including a number of prominent Republicans, only $34,000 was raised through the Council's newspaper advertisements soliciting funds...
...Formerly a leading Canadian business executive and public official, Mr...
...But the Senator did not count the possible new damage to himself and immediately requested an investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department into the origins and apparatus of the homosexuality smear conducted against him...
...We need all the farmers we have ("the number of farmers who have left the land is appalling...
...But after he signed it last June, thousands of copies of Krause's false affidavit were sent through the mails and distributed by right-wing bookshops throughout the country...
...As the result of months of investigation by the District Attorney's office in Los Angeles, a grand jury indicted four men for conspiring to commit criminal libel against Senator Ku-chel...
...One of them, Norman H. Krause, had signed an affidavit dated June 3, 1964, which said that back in 1949, he and another Los Angeles policeman, Donald McClelland, had arrested two men who were committing a morals offense in a car—and one was Kuchel, who was then state controller...
...Robert G. Murray of Saskatoon summed up the current attitude of physicians: "The plan has operated much better than any of us dreamed...
...The Plot That Failed Every decent American stands indebted to Senator Thomas H. Ku-chel, California Republican, for two reasons...
...His plan calls for fifty chapters, of twenty members each, in each of 325 selected Congressional districts...
...Doctors conducted an unprecedented strike in protest, and when the plan was adopted many physicians migrated from the province...
...We doubt that any readers of The Progressive are so deluded, but we offer this report with the thought that they will want to alert anyone they know who is still napping while the far right marches on...
...Miami and Tallahassee, Florida...
...But without regard to the legal outcome, we agree wholeheartedly with Los Angeles District Attorney E. J. Younger who said, "Senator Kuchel has done a great service to every man who now holds or ever will hold public office...
...That is what we wish fewer people would keep telling themselves...
...In their twisted world of nightmare and delusion, no notion is too lunatic to entertain...
...and Francis A. Capell of New Jersey...
...But how well this system works is another matter...
...Hoover is the only government official we know of, for instance, who puts his picture on every news release sent out by his agency...
...What has happened, The Wall Street Journal reported, is that "physicians are prospering under the plan...
...Duncan writes and reflects with an even-tempered objectivity that is rare if not indeed unique among commentators on Communist China...
...As often happens, the victim was the last to know...
...Keyserling...
...Then came the Senator's second pronouncement of the month—a war-hawk's concept of the struggle in Vietnam in which he urged the President "to call the hand of Red China and the Communists even if it means risking full-scale war...
...The Barenblatt case, in 1959, upheld the Committee's mandate by a five-to-four vote...
...Frawley, who was called to testify before the grand jury, is reported to have denied any knowledge of the plot against Kuchel...
...It is the role of Fergus that may lead to the most important revelations...
...As for the farmer himself, Keyserling would continue a farm payments program but would shift gradually from a commodity price support plan to an income supplement system...
...John F. Fergus, who resigned as public relations man for the Schick Safety Razor Company when he was indicted...
...The Representatives who cast their votes for a Congressional hearing on HUAC are listed below...
...Down on the Farm American agriculture is seriously sick, and the various remedies currently being applied seem designed to weaken rather than cure the patient...
...Until recently, he was top public relations assistant to Patrick J. Frawley, Jr., president of Eversharp, Inc., which controls Schick Safety Razor Company...
...It was necessary for Warner Brothers to involve Hoover explicitly because the FBI, unique among government agencies, is protected by a law that stipulates that no commercial use may be made of its name, initials, or seal without the director's approval...
...Too often it is the industry itself that, in reality, selects the members of the power regulatory commission which is supposed to protect the public, and too often it is a case of sending a fox to watch the chickens...
...Capell denies distributing it to anyone except his contacts—"for safekeeping until the story broke...
...Washington: Brock Adams, Floyd Hicks, Lloyd Meeds...
...If Mr...
...All these beauty parlor treatments will not change the Birch objective, which is to thwart progress and establish reaction everywhere...
...Physician, Heal Thyself Only three years ago the Canadian province of Saskatchewan was in a state of wild uproar over a proposed socialized medicine scheme...
...It is not the way for a subsidiary of the United States government to explain itself...
...It was not until one day last October, after three muscular young men had marched into Senator Kuchel's office in Los Angeles and demanded to see him, that he realized what was afoot...
...Although they could not be present, Representatives Edith Green of Oregon, Abraham Multer of New York, and Elmer Holland of Pennsylvania joined the twenty-nine other Democrats in showing opposition to HUAC funds by recording themselves as paired against the Committee appropriation...
...The Fox and the Chickens It is well-established public policy that the nation's private power companies, which enjoy monopoly status in their respective areas, should be prevented from bilking the public by state and Federal agencies that regulate utility rates...
...The chapters will work to send candidates they favor to Congress...
...That, in summary, is the judgment of the Conference on Economic Progress, which has just issued an extensive analysis of "the farm problem," prepared under the direction of economist Leon Keyserling, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Truman...
...They bear some responsibility for helping to produce the lethargic climate which permits a project as important as the National Council's radio programs, directed against the extremists, to founder while the broadcasts, printing presses, book shops, and recruiting centers of the ultra-right become more numerous month by month...
...Representatives Multer, Green, and Holland also were paired in favor of the motion for a hearing on funds for HUAC, as were Pennsylvania Congressmen James Byrne, Robert Nix, and Herman Toll, all Democrats...
...The vote for HUAC funds was 359, while 332 Representatives opposed the motion for a hearing...
...but it is significant that following an earlier study by the Association, which revealed similar overcharges, thirty-five of eighty utilities named in the study reduced, or requested permission to reduce, their rates...
...Even its battles over "provincial rights" versus Federal rights echo our own "states rights" controversies...
...The two-thirds of the world that is hungry could easily absorb whatever "surplus" was left...
...Seattle, Washington...
...First, the Wyoming Democrat proposed that Senators be given sabbaticals—a leave of absence every six-year term for three to six months to "assess the world and our place in it—time to read and reflect...
...But the National Council for Civic Responsibility, which took the field in September to combat Birch-ism, raised an average of only $32,500 a month and has been forced by lack of funds to give up its plans to expose the far right...
...How would we dispose of the enormous increase in food and fiber that would result from the adoption of such a policy...
...This process of acquiring a House majority against HUAC could take more years then we care to contemplate...
...Duncan opposes U.S...
...Pennsylvania: William Barrett, N. Neiman Craley, Jr., William Green, William Moorhead...
...We've had regulation for years, and this is not preventing the power companies from overcharging their consumers by hundreds of millions of dollars a year...
...West Virginia: Ken Hechler...
...And if Senator McGee lacks for material that will enable him to "read and reflect," we suggest that he tuck into his luggage a copy of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's latest report estimating that full-scale nuclear war aimed at our major cities would kill at least 149 million Americans...
...Ranuzzi also carries a full line of the Society's literature in his cultural center, which does business as "Poor Richard's Book Shop...
...The Senator was not there...
...Nor will it change the Society's tactics which are those of the big lie, and the suppression of opposition and dissent by intimidation and the purveying of hate and fear...
...But it doesn't, and much of the fault lies in the conservative state legislatures whose predominantly rural and small-town members are susceptible to pressure from the powerful private utility lobby...
...Not so, says Mr...
...The Far Right Expands Last year money poured into John Birch Society coffers at the rate of an estimated $250,000 a month, and in 1965 this spearhead of the growing army of reaction expects to do far better...
...The record is clear," said Ellis, "that regulation, either Federal or state, will not get the job done...
...According to one recent article in Raymond R. Coffey's fine series on the Birch Society in The Chicago Daily News, the Ranuzzi bookshelves are filled with such grim titles as The Art of Shooting, Explosives and Homemade Bombs, We Shall Fight in the Streets, Blaster's Handbook, Modern Guerrilla Warfare, and How to Go Live in the Woods on $10 a Week...
...What brought about such an abrupt change of attitude on the part of the doctors...
...Oregon: Robert Duncan...
...The problem is to find ways and means of releasing latent demand to consume a larger supply, rather than to limit production to current demand...
...With great interest we await the trial of the four men indicted for conspiracy...
...It would take a revolution in Congress and among the old-line farm organizations to pass the legislation required to achieve these goals, but our farmers are in such a bad way that such a revolution seems imperative...
...After all, Goldwater was soundly defeated in November...
...Most important, Krause, who left the police force eight years ago, has admitted under oath that his affidavit is false...
...The outcome of such a plebiscite might well be a genuinely autonomous Taiwan, whose integrity could be protected by United Nations guarantees against aggression...
...The solution, under this reasoning, is to move even more farmers off the land, restrict production, and eliminate "inefficient" farms...
...At $30,000 a year, John Rousselot, former California Congressman, has become chief facade-builder of the Society, seeking to make it appear as respectable as a bank, as moderate as the Boy Scouts, as lovable as Lassie...
...Three others who could not be present were paired against the appropriation and six were paired in favor of the hearing motion, bringing the two totals to thirty-two and sixty-four...
...The Goldwater thing just snuffed us out...
...Canada already provides nationwide coverage for most hospital services...
...He has worked diligently, and with a large measure of success, to create a "superman legend" about himself...
...Personally, and through his Schick company, he is also a leading financial backer of Fred Schwarz's Christian Anti-Communist Crusade and other ultra-right groups...
...Ten of them are new Congressmen...
...and the main reason so many farmers don't make a go of it is their inefficiency...
...Phoenix, Arizona...
...In the meantime, it is some reassurance to know that the rural electric cooperatives are continually alerting the public to the need for improved power regulation in the public interest...
...Meanwhile, in our own capital Congress is pondering—and will almost certainly pass—a pale, timid Medicare plan covering only hospital and nursing-home costs—and possibly, under a proposed amendment, doctors' fees—for Americans over sixty-five years of age...
...Here is a nation closely parallel to our own in cultural traditions, in economic and social systems, and in medical and fiscal standards...
...If they are convicted they each face a possible three year prison sentence and $5,000 fine...
...The same judgment applies to the many other far right organizations...
...that they produce too much...
...Two years ago, twenty Representatives voted against funds for HUAC, and, as The Progressive pointed out recently, of the eighteen of them who ran for reelection last November, all won and in most cases by larger margins than before...
...But the callers left behind a Minutemen sticker, along with a copy of the rigged affidavit which they told his aide they wanted the Senator to explain...
...The twenty-nine whose names are italicized took the bolder step of later voting against the HUAC appropriation...
...In a highly significant opening statement given little notice by the press (see Page 23 of this issue for a condensation of his remarks) he declared: "I .am confident that the Supreme Court will ultimately find the [1945] resolution establishing the House Committee on Un-American Activities unconstitutional...
...In light of this, we concur with Jack Gould that "it is not seemly for the FBI to resort to a public relations campaign through the instrument of commercial entertainment television . . predominantly designed to sell cars and other merchandise...
...President Johnson's farm message to Congress set forth goals and ideals closely in accord with Keyserling's proposed program...
...But as the district attorney's office has dryly commented, Capell must have a lot of contacts...
...Notes in the News China James S. Duncan's comprehensive survey of "Comumnist China Today" which begins on Page 13 of this issue, strikes the Editors of The Progressive as one of the fairest and most objective reports to emerge from behind the bamboo curtain...
...But it is no substitute for mature statesmanship that recognizes realities, however distasteful they may be...
...Duncan does not seem to reject the concept of a two-China policy— one that would recognize Communist China while maintaining the integrity of Taiwan as an independent nation...
...they should be encouraged to produce more, not less...
...Fingerprints taken at the time of arrest (which was not in 1949 but on February 11, 1950) corroborate this...
...In the whole ugly catalogue of political smears, the charge of a morals offense must be the most hideous...
...recognition of the mainland government of China and by her admission to the United Nations...
...His program would stem the flow of farmers to the city, and in addition to improving their living on the land, would preserve and strengthen the nation's family farms, certainly a worthwhile social value...
...We heartily agree...
...recognition at this time, although he acknowledges that recognition is inevitable "some day...
...For HUAC has embedded itself so deeply in the woodwork of the Congressional structure and in the cold war psychology that digging it out requires a steady buildup in the House of the courage to support the Bill of Rights...
...Clyde Ellis, general manager of the electric cooperative association, has called for a tripling of Federal power output by 1980, partly to provide a nationwide network of "yardstick" plants...
...Minnesota: John Blatnik, Donald Eraser...
...The Case Against HUAC One of the most powerfully argued indictments of HUAC has just been released by the American Civil Liberties Union...
...we are in limbo...
...is being proposed . . . Canada is moving rapidly toward government financing of most, if not all, health care costs for its citizens...
...Small Gain Against HUAC If deliverance from the House Un-American Activities Committee comes within the next few years, it is more likely to be the Supreme Court that removes or emphatically curbs that violator of the Constitution than a vote of the House itself...
...Both dictators may continue to reject such a course, but it is essential for the United States to identify itself with a policy that is more creative than our present negative position which, in effect, pretends that the largest, most populous, and potentially the most powerful nation on earth simply does not exist...
...Key-serling's diagnosis and his recommended treatment are for the most part diametrically opposed to current views and practices...
...The gauge used, the Association stated, was "the widely-accepted standard of a six per cent return on invested capital after all costs, including depreciation and proper taxes...
...The National Council raised $130,-000 in four months after its chairman, Arthur Larson, former consultant to President Eisenhower, announced its debut in September...
...Quantity prices are available on request...
...Illinois: Barratt O'Hara...
...The Progressive does not believe that opposition by both Mao and Chiang should deter the United States from proclaiming and seeking to effectuate a policy that it believes to be fair and sound...
...New York: Jonathan Bingham, John Dow, Leonard Farbstein, Jacob Gilbert, Richard Ottinger, Joseph Res-nick, Benjamin Rosenthal, William Fitts Ryan, James Scheuer, Herbert Tenzer, Lester Wolff, John Lindsay...
...Iowa: John Culver, John Schmid-hauser...
...Twenty-nine Democrats displayed their courage in full measure recently when they voted against appropriating $370,000 to the Committee for the current year...
...As the Council fades from the scene, the Birch Society burgeons...
...A Senator in the mood to risk "full-scale war" over Vietnam is a Senator who needs a sabbatical—not six years from now but this very minute...
...Duncan, however...
...Interest in the Council's campaign, he said, dropped off markedly after Goldwater's defeat...
...Reapportionment will shift more legislative weight to urban and suburban areas, which can provide a more highly-organized and articulate consumer lobby, and offer greater counter-resistance to the private power lobby...
...We think there is a lesson for Americans, for Congress, and for the AMA in the Canadian experience...
...The editor of the ultra-right Herald of Freedom, Capell also is the author of The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe, a book which contends that when Robert Kennedy was Attorney General he had the film star killed by "Communist agents...
...The claim was based on data taken from reports filed with the Federal Power Commission by the companies themselves...
...Some of his extremist foes, we hope, will feel the lash of public revulsion against the monstrous smear of Senator Kuchel which they sought to spread across the land...
...Recommended are substantial increases in Social Security and public assistance payments, an enlarged foreign aid program, and a national full employment program, all on a scale adequate to the need...
...This would help the farmer who needs it most, but stop subsidy payments to the small percentage of wealthy commercial farmers who need them not at all...
...Expand demand...
...Some Birch Society members were called to testify...
...Portland, Oregon...
...New Jersey: Henry Helstoske, Frank Thompson, Jr...
...But currently, a recent Wall Street Journal survey has revealed, plans are quietly going ahead for broadening coverage under the program, and the doctors "are giving their support to the trend...
...He merely feels that such a course is not feasible because both Mao Tse-tung's China and Chiang's Taiwan oppose this approach...
...The FBI," Gould concluded, "should stay out of show business...
...This would get rid of "surpluses," provide the farmer better prices, and bring an end to subsidies...
...After the blitzing and blasting fizzle, do they figure that knowing how to retreat to the woods and live on $1Q a week will come in handy...
...Does this reveal a hidden fear of defeat held by Minutemen and other ultra-right militia types...
...J. Edgar Hoover is unquestionably one of the most powerful men in government—and probably the most sensitive to criticism...
...Wyoming: Teno Roncallio...
...Danville, Virginia...
...New Mexico: E. S. Johnny Walker...
...As one expert on extremism put it, Rousselot portrays the Birch membership as "a cohesive family of concerned Americans who would never call anyone in the dead of night to call him a Communist...
...Wisconsin: Robert Kastenmeier, Henry Reuss...
...But there is more at stake here than the director's injured ego...
...They] say their earnings have climbed considerably . . . there's no sign of emigration now...
...During the one hour allotted for both opponents and friends of HUAC this time, Representatives James Roosevelt and Don Edwards of California, and Leonard Farbstein and Herbert Tenzer of New York cited past minority and majority opinions of the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of both HUAC's activities and existence...
...A member of the Birch Society since 1959, Mr...
...The series is scheduled for viewing next fall on the network of the American Broadcasting Company...
...Duncan is wrong, in our judgment, in rejecting recognition for the moment, he is on sound ground when he suggests that a "wait-and-see" policy be tempered by a lessening of what he describes as our "and" campaign, and by continuously exploring avenues of accommodations with Communist China in the areas of trade, cultural exchanges, news agencies, and unclassified scientific information...
...Second, his courage in demanding investigation of a plot to smear him on a charge of homosexuality has brought about grand jury conspiracy indictments, whose prosecution should disclose not only the operating methods of specific extremists but also reveal links to at least one executive suite in industry—the Schick Safety Razor Company...
...Ranuzzi runs an enterprise which he says is "the first 100 per cent anti-Communist bookstore in the United States...
...Michigan: Raymond Clevenger, John Conyers, Jr., Charles Diggs, Jr., John Dingell, William Ford, John Mack-ie, Lucien Nedzi, James O'Hara, Paul Todd, Jr., Weston Vivian...
...It's a commentary on our times...
...In the twenty years since HUAC was made a standing committee of the House, succeeding the Dies Committee, whose mandate had expired, it has never faced a hearing...
...Fighting such charges gives them wider circulation...
...But along with some of the Democrats in the band of fifty-eight, he later crossed over to vote for the appropriation itself...
...Patsy Mink...
Vol. 29 • April 1965 • No. 4
