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After each exchange, Chairman Thomas, his red neck swelling, ordered the witness from the microphone. The committee then noted evidence of Communist allegiance (including photostats identified as their Communist Party membership cards) ; started the contempt proceedings rolling through the full committee to Speaker Joe Martin. By the third day they had cited eight: Writers John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, Samuel Ornitz, Director Edward Dmytryk, Producer Adrian Scott, Writer-Director Herbert Biberman...
Like a judge donning the black cap to pronounce the death penalty, the Speaker of the House of Commons placed his black cocked hat on his bewigged head. Then he read the sentence. For breach of confidence, an affront to the House, and contempt, the Honorable Member from Gravesend, Garry Allighan, was expelled from Commons...
...Chairman Thomas' gavel and boos from the audience, Witness Lawson was asked four times whether he was or ever had been a Communist Party member. Four times Lawson challenged the committee's right to ask, and refused to answer. When Lawson was ordered from the stand (and contempt proceedings against him started), a committee investigator produced copies of Communist registration cards for 1944. Number 47275, he said, was in the name of John Howard Lawson...
...Whether the killing remained suspended or was mercifully at an end or was to be tragically revived, India was not to be singled out for condemnation or contempt. No nation had ever come into the world without bloodshed. In every process of hope, ambition, confused value, self-deceit, India is merely the world in small, and one more terrible warning to the conscience of the world. India's gravest error, her deepest sin, is rampant in all the world and never so madly so as in those portions of the world which call themselves "modern": the incapacity of those...
Wrote China's independent newspaper Ta Rung Pao: "The diplomatic attitude of the U.S. during the past two years has been permeated with arrogance and prejudice [and] contempt. . . ." The diplomatic attitude did not seem to have changed...