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...committee is headed by Senator William E. Jenner (R-Ind.), but Jenner could not be contacted last night in Washington. Thus, the number of Harvard professors involved could not be determined...
Most recent investigations by Jenner's group, a sub-committee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have paralleled those of Velde's House group. However, the exact purpose of Jenner's investigations here has not yet been made public...
...Messrs. Velde and Jenner may claim that Communism is always a sufficient reason for hearings on any subject. But we have abundant legislation, both state and federal, on this subject. No investigator has doubted its sufficiency or propriety. It would require the utmost ingenuity to think of legislation more drastic than the McCarran Internal Security Law, the Smith Act, the McCarran-Walter Immigration Law, and other contemporaneous related statutes...
...refusing to cooperate with the Velde and Jenner committees the witnesses are asserting their constitutional right to freedom of speech, belief, conscience and assembly. The Supreme Court has not consented to hear such First Amendment claims in recent cases involving congressional investigations. That is not a reason for failing to assert rights which the individual citizen believes that he possesses. The denial of certiorari, we are told repeatedly, is not an adjudication by the Supermen Court. The Court has frequently changed its mind in the past where it has come to realize the significance of the problem presented...
...Failure to assert the constitutional privilege means that the witness must relate to Messrs. Velde and Jenner all he knows about his friends and family. Is this not contrary to basic moral values? I take my teaching here from Professor Chafee, who has told us of Francis Jenks, who had criticized the policies of Charles the Second at a public meeting. When the King demanded his advisors' names, he said: "To name any particular person (if there were such) would be a mean and unworthy thing, therefore I desire to be excused from all farther answer to such questions...