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...Navy has removed the obscurity from one significant clause in the loyalty questionnaire distributed this Fall to all Harvard NROTC students. This clause requires Navy men to supply--along with a confession of any formal or informal association with groups on the Attorney General's "subversive" list--a list of "names and addresses of others similarly associated or acting...
...Tricks. Rugged, bellicose Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, who hasn't been quite so rambunctious since Judge George B. Harris clamped a six months' jail sentence on him early in the trial for contempt, rushed at John Schomaker like a cocky mahout. Pretending to read from a transcript of Schomaker's testimony in a 1939 court hearing, he asked the witness: "Do you remember being asked 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Answer...
Spencer Tracy playing an assistant District Attorney named Adam Bonner attempts to prosecute a woman (Judy Holliday) who took pot shots at her husband when she found his in the arms of another woman. Miss Hepburn (Bonner's wife) defends the accused woman. The trial becomes an attempt to defend women's rights to protect their families by any means they choose...
...loyalty order now in force was promulgated by President Truman in March 1947 in Executive Order 9825. The order itself did not define the world "disloyalty" but set up certain standards by which the Attorney General could determine who was disloyal by membership is, or sympathetic association, with certain organizations which he, the Attorney General would determine are subversive. Thus, the power to decide who was eligible for government employment was placed in the hands of one man, unfettered by any unconstitutional guarantees of due process of law. Justice Jackson condemned this type of proceeding when, speaking for the Supreme...
That proceedings before the Loyalty Board violate most of these safeguards is clear. The Attorney General may arbitrarily place organization on his list and is not required by law to give any reasons for his action; the organization has no right to a hearing; individuals accused of "disloyalty" are not tried by a jury, have no right to counsel, are not clearly informed of the charges against them; the loyalty order is ex post facto in effect, and there is no right to examine witnesses or evidence used against the accused. This is the type of un-American proceeding which...