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...House Internal Security (formerly the Un-American Activities) Committee, headed by Rep. Richard H. Ichord (D.-Mo.), has spent several weeks holding hearings at such campuses as George Washington and Kent State to investigate the activities of the militant students organizations on those campuses...
...Ichord, a polite moderate, contends that his purpose in changing names was to clarify the mandate of his committee. To the Rules committee he said, "The present mandate is admittedly ambiguous. It gives rise to the thought that the Committee is concerned with political ideas. I am not interested in any witch hunt...or pillorying anybody for unorthodox thoughts...
...attitude is not the innocently tolerant one that it first appears. He would grant Americans freedom of "political ideas", but he draws the line at "political action" tainting of "SDS, Communism, pacifism, nihilism, and treachery." When critics suggested that Ichord considered peace a Communist plot, the chairman quickly retracted his indictment of pacifists, saying he was misquoted...
Even so, his other criteria for illegal political action (particularly "treachery") reclaim for the Committee its right to thought control. Ichord has promised to expose every revolutionary group as well as those who "condone" this violence. This means, he emphasizes, concentrating on SDS and Afro-style campus agitators. William Colmer (D-Miss.), a member of HUAC, added that he was especially concerned about "Communists working with young people in colleges and even in high schools...
...Ichord therefore suggested an alias, the "House Committee on Internal Security." No one, it is hoped, can challenge the constitutionality of HUAC if HUAC-as-such doesn't exist. Its supporters can sabotage the Stamler suit by inventing a new cover for the posse...