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...Government's case sticks, hawk-nosed Harry Bridges faces the possibility of a maximum of seven years' imprisonment, then deportation, In its previous attempts to deport Bridges, in 1939 and 1941, the Government cited Bridges' ties with Communist-front organizations, and produced witnesses who said they had heard him admit to being a Communist. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1945 ruled the evidence insufficient...
...Roman Catholic Church and the Czech Communist government were heading for a showdown. Since March, when the church refused to agree to the nationalization of all Catholic schools or to recognize the state's right of veto on church appointments, the Communist propaganda machine has been screaming that the higher clergy and the Vatican are allied with "Anglo-American imperialists and fascists." Last week the new Communist-front Catholic Clergy Gazette unsubtly intimated that some priests could expect a higher income if they would only show "a positive attitude...
...soon began to look as though Gerhart was operating strictly under his own steam and was perhaps a victim of his own ego. Carol King, his attorney and a longtime defender of Communists, almost exploded when she heard that he had jumped his $23,500 bail-money that had been put up by Communist-front groups. Cried she: "Reprehensible...
...Line. In 1940, Witness Philbrick, who had been getting a flood of Communist-front literature in the course of his church work, helped to organize a group known as the Cambridge Youth Council. Almost at once, he spotted Reds in the fold. He took his suspicions to the FBI, was asked to stick with it and keep the FBI informed. Two years later, he was a member of the Young Communist League, from 1944 on a member of the Communist Party. The FBI paid his expenses: party dues, the cost of renting a recording machine on which he dictated some...
Harlow Shapley yesterday defended the forthcoming intellectuals' peace rally in New York against allegations of Communist-front activity with the assertion that it is independent of any political group or other conferences already held or contemplated...