Three years after he refused to answer questions of the House Un-American Activities Committee, pudgy Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, trudged off to a Washington, D.C. jail last week to begin serving his one-year (plus $1,000 fine) sentence for contempt of Congress. Dennis protested that it wasn't fair to jail him while he was busy appealing two other sentences which he had incurred since: five years and a $10,000 fine for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government, and six months for contempt of court for his disruptive conduct while defending himself against...
COMMUNISTS: The Time Is Now
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