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Demonstrations Protesting United States Intervention in Vietnam . reply to questions when he appeared during the Atlanta hearings. * * * WILKINSON has Since been convicted ¢ contempt of Congress and sentenced to one year in jail.! "Disputing the non-Communist claim of the organization, the committee finds that a number of other individuals connected with the ECLC also have been identified undér oath as Communists. & *% KI (Committee on Un-American Activities, Annual Report for 1958, House Report 157, March 9, 1959, pp. 34 and 35.) 'To defend the cases of Communist law- breakers, fronts have been devised making special appeals in behalf of civil liberties and reaching out far beyond the confines of the Communist Party itself. Among these organizations are the * * * Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. When the Communist Party itself is under fire these fronts offer a bulwark of protection.! : (Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Handbook for Americans, S. Doc. 3117, April 23, 1956, “hy -19- o* . c