Fishing for a way to open its long-planned investigation of the controversial Fund for the Republic, the House Committee on Un-American Activities last week harpooned Author John Cogley, pulled him to Washington to make some explanations. Commissioned two years ago by the fund to survey political blacklisting in the entertainment world, Cogley had resigned as editor of the liberal Catholic magazine, the Commonweal, selected ten assistants, undertaken a twelve-month study. Published last month, Cogley's report found that blacklisting of Communists, "unrehabilitated" ex-Communists and Commie liners was 1) "almost universally accepted...
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