By an overwhelming 319-to-38 vote the House passed a bill last week which, in the end, would probably drive the U.S. Communist Party underground.
The bill was the Mundt-Nixon bill, introduced by South Dakota's Karl Mundt (who is now up for election as a Senator), and largely written by California's Richard M. Nixon, a lank, earnest Quaker attorney. It had come to the floor of the House from the Un-American Activities Committee.
The committee had tackled a troubling problem of political freedom: how to deal democratically with a group which is dedicated to the...
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