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...plain purpose of these committees is particularly reprehensible: subpoenaing witnesses in order to entrap them by interrogation into the minutest details in the long distant past and not their political beliefs so as to subject them to contempt or perjury indictments. The most notorious example is that of the Internal Security Subcommittee in the Lattimore case...
...From a technical point of view, a witness who relies excessively upon the First Amendment may not avoid a committee citation for contempt. Hence, so many witnesses in recent years have relied upon the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that persons may not be required to act as witnesses against themselves. It is particularly appropriate to assert the privilege here since it had its origins in the protection of political and religious dissidence in the Puritan period in England. The First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, belief and religion were protected by the Puritans' refusal...
...Weinberg, then teaching at the University of Minnesota, denied the accusation with equal flatness. An attempt to charge him with contempt failed in court, but last year he was indicted on three counts of perjury: that he had lied 1) in denying that he had been a Communist, 2) in denying that he had attended more than one party meeting, and 3) in denying that he knew Nelson...
...witness, Barrows (Man Against Myth) Dunham, head of Temple University's philosophy department, grudgingly gave his name and address, his birthday and birthplace. To answer any other question, even about his education, he said, might tend to incriminate him. The committee promptly recommended that Dunham be cited for contempt...
...although Provost Buck last week issued a statement saying "Professor Wendell H. Furry's reported refusal to answer certain questions put to him by the House Un-American Activities Committee will be given full and deliberate consideration by the Harvard University authorities." Furry, however, has not been cited for contempt...