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i - - = a 7 -e ‘ Central Fereore) Section . < . e * 6. @TT Mee. 7-10-003 ° “Tlie UncSmerteaie} f Activities Committee should be abolished, not reorgnyizee and expanded.” .... ) . “The Washington Pos” We, thee undersiened, petition the 86th Congress to eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities as a Standing Committee. We believe that the U. §. Supreme Court has, in the United States vs, Wate } Poa! kins, made it clear that the Committee hae habitually micused ite mandate ia 7 J-le unconstitutional wave for political purposes; that it has become an azency for _ ywie tepression; that it has usurped the functions of the executive and judicial ° 9 branches ef our government : Wash. Post on4 ff § Times Herald We are confident that only @ return to constitutional procedures can pro Wash. News fect us against subversion without at tle same time subverting the very liber» Wash. Star ties we seck to protect. N. Y. Herald * Tribune For two decades the Congress has allowed the Committee te function For N.Y. Journal-____ twe decades the Committee has condemned individual Americans has wrecked American the lives of some, and has denied them the due process of law that Enzlish and N.Y. Mirror American courts have toifsamely evolved over many centuries. Now the nation N.Y. Times : i] H . . , . ts reaping the bitter harvest: Datly Worker 1. The Commitice has perverted, and therchy imperiled, the ace and necessary powers of the Congress to conduct investi- a tions. [ . 4 The Committee hae heiped df-edurage [ree study and inquiry, ‘ im working for peace while the world is threatened with destruction.