Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Reds and party-liners have a perfect right to refuse to answer questions about their Communist activities-so long as they take advantage of their constitutional privilege not to incriminate themselves. Then the law cannot touch them for contempt. So the Supreme Court ruled last week in an 8-0 decision written by Justice Hugo Black...
...ruling might be applied to the grubby crew of witnesses who have defied congressional committees on the same grounds. Some 50 witnesses are currently embroiled with the law and facing jail terms for refusing to answer questions like those put to Mrs. Blau. Among them: Earl Browder, Frederick Vanderbilt Field. The famed Hollywood Ten, however, relied primarily on the First Amendment (freedom of speech) in their refusal to answer the question: Are you a Communist...
...answer was to be found at the Pentagon, where top military men were anxious not to have too much mobilization too fast. Their argument went thus: it would be chaotic to throw millions of men into uniform without enough weapons to fight with or enough men to train them; to do so would also disturb the production of war goods by robbing defense plants of men before the plants were in shape to replace them. One of General George Catlett Marshall's convictions is that all-out mobilization should be ordered only at the certain prospect...
...door's crack, decided to keep trying this week. They reported that they had sent a cablegram to Peking, offering to meet the Chinese Reds any place they chose, presumably even in their own capital. They still hoped that Wu had not given his side's final answer...
...State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson and India's indefatigable Rau-promptly began work. They spent 2½ hours with U.S. representatives. Red China's Wu refused to meet them. On Saturday, at a press conference attended by 75 newsmen, Wu gave Peking's answer: no ceasefire...