Hearings Held in San Francisco Calif;, June 18 21, 1957, Vol. 1

Excerpt from Hearings Held in San Francisco Calif;, June 18 21, 1957, Vol. 1: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-Fifth Congress, First Session, June 18 and 19, 1957 I have practiced law as a member of the State and Federal bar in Ohio for a quarter of a century. I am a member of my local and the American Bar Associations. There is almost nothing that hurts a lawyer more than to be censured by a governing body of the bar with the attendant publicity. It is shocking to be censured by a bar associ ation, supposedly steeped in the tradition of the law - censured when one is miles away, censured without notice that any such action was contemplated, without any knowledge of the charges, without a hearing, without an opportunity to reply contemporaneously with the publication of the censure in the Congressional Record and news papers Of the country. When I was elected to the Congress for the first time in 1953, I was naturally thrilled by the responsibility of my post, by the dignity and prestige it presumably carried. Now, I can only smile a bit wryly over that first reaction. I could not guess that soon after reaching Washington, I would be reviled, ridiculed, and insulted from coast to coast. Of course, I am not the only Victim of this kind Of abuse. It is shared by all Members of the House and Senate committees investigating the ravages of the Communist conspiracy within our gates, even as it was the fate of our predecessors, beginning with the much-maligned Texan, Martin Dies, about 20 years ago. Legislators may probe garden-variety crimes or scandals like the Beck case, with relative impunity; but, when they venture to tackle the Kremlin's little gremlins, they have need for strong nerves and tough hides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.