THE CAPITAL: Either Way You Win

U.S. Communists are noisier than numerous. And they prefer, whenever possible, to have the shouting done for them by others and thus seem not only more respectable but larger than life. In Washington last week they gave a demonstration of this technique. Their target was the Mundt-Nixon bill.*

Before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee appeared Singer Paul Robeson, a long time fellow traveler, to denounce the bill. He refused to tell whether or not he is a Communist. Declared Robeson: "Nineteen men are about to go to jail for refusing to answer that...

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