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...Communist Earl Browder has been in & out of enough courtrooms in his time to make him a pretty fair curbstone lawyer in his own right. When he went on trial in Washington a fortnight ago for contempt of Congress, he disdainfully brushed aside the aid of a court-appointed lawyer, argued his own defense and promptly put his finger on the soft point in the government's case...
...Korea, the U.S. and its allies were up against an implacable and callous will, which shocked even the old Asiatic campaigner, Douglas MacArthur. "That they should continue this savage slaughter despite an almost hopeless chance of ultimate military success . . . displays a complete contempt for the sanctity of human life." And faced with that, he was raising once again the question of all-out attacks by air and by sea against bases in China as possibly the only way to end the bloodshed. MacArthur put it up to U.N. Decisions beyond his authority as "the military commander," he said, "must provide...
...United Electrical Workers' James J. Matles knew just how to bait the House Un-American Activities Committee without getting gored. Unlike his Redlining colleague, Julius Emspak, who arrogantly refused to answer the committee's questions and was sentenced to jail for contempt of Congress (TIME, March 12), Matles carefully prepared his line of retreat. In Washington last week, the same federal judge who convicted Emspak threw out a similar contempt charge against Matles. Though their manners had been the same, a careful reading of the testimony convinced the judge that the committee understood "this defendant properly invoked...
...News attacked Griswold editorially for his refusal to discuss the Derby Day issue extemporaneously. "By his contempt for an assemblage . . . of his students," said the News, "he succeeded in alienating a good portion of the undergraduate body...
...House charged him with contempt for refusing to answer its questions. But Emspak blandly explained that his surly accusations had merely been his way of invoking his constitutional rights against selfincrimination. Then he sat back to enjoy the committee's discomfiture. Last week Julius Emspak discovered that he had doped it out all wrong. In Washington, a federal judge decided that he had not properly claimed his constitutional rights, gave him six months in jail and a $500 fine for contempt of Congress...