◆ SpookStack

: ERE? lit im Lae want, “FIED _ . . 1 t CAR RBS (roster, ° w pedireet) aT 800-517 783 (ti. 0/20/49) (™. 16,681) ‘the Court eonvened at 30:30 a.m. with the attorneys for the ' defendarts present with the exeeption of ISEL!SAR and CLAM TIF fer ahcx the usual | @tipulation was filed, The Court surrested that eounsel for beth aides disuse later in the day the matter of the } soming Jewish, holidays 6 and b etree | on what \ days” sourt should mot te Delde . oa aa fe soa (Rm 14, 882) SleC ATE: reed the o quentions | ef the “daponttion ef WILLIAM t, POST and GATS read the answers, McTAET atarted with the autject of the ehanre of policy expressed in the beck "Towards Soviet Axsarioa”. In sonneetion with question 25 FOS TS? referred to the fovie’t court syeten end said with the ehanze of their line dvs to the develo;mant ef Fascism, they head departed frox the material eantained in point 25 about the Soviet sourt system as spplied to the United Etates. Their position 4n that matter, which was developed prior to 1945, is that the United States Covernnent ie based upon the principle of maintaininr eapitelion, The laws of the eountry are based ween thie princiole and aur aourta are aste) lished far the enforaesecnt af these based upon this principle ar ested iis for orasec laws, In our federal eourte particularly, men are appointed who will earry ont theze laws which are fundanentally capitelis+, They consider that the sourts, particularly the ewurts ef appointed dudres, are little, if any, ef a bulwark of American denceracy, FCCTeR distineuished the fury systen from the eourt systen, The fury systen, he ssid, eutdates earitalios by several eenturies, Thur, althoush our eourts my be based upex elass eonception of justice and elass lexs, nevertheless it is possible fer jurors, althourh hedred about by many capitalistic restrictions, te render dencoratio desisions fn the Court. Therefore, while they expressed thelr esonception that the courts af such are clase courts, nevertheless they recornize that derore ean and often do bring in jet, honest, and decoeratio decisions. -, (™. 14,684) RFeferring tc eroes interrogatory 26, whish refers to paces ry and 21s of “Towards Soviet America”, FOL TER stated that the substanes ef this quotation an he — a a = Sa what the Cearamists refsr to as & scnseption of She breaking up of the state itself, the reorganitation of society on a Recialiet basis, We said he thought this whole basis da eutzoded for the reasons he hed given rerarding their ehancge ef pelicy and he gaid 1% no lonrer serves as a guide in any Sense for the Party. FOSTIR said that prior $o April, 10645 in his advocacy and tesching of Marxist-Leninist principles he had modified the position he expressed in his book “From Bryan to ftalin” with particular reference to the quotations appearing in cross interroratories 80 to 51, He said this wook, written twelve years apo, wee writton in a period ef transition fron their old to new policy. It, therefore, tontaines many slenents of the old line and is no lounger weed e246 guide by the £B in the eheping af pelle ley. It hee a eertain walua va, however, and if it is used in the schools, it is because it contains inportant §_. Bistorionl matorial about the grovth of left wing trade unionism in this country | and the formation ef the CP, Otherwise the book is politically ebsolete, oa a (™®. 14,685) POGTER said be had no eomment on point £9 as it was covered in previous answers, He seid that point SO is an esticate of the political role of LiXIN and is eulstantially correct frac a factual etentpoint, However, it has to be read in the light of the ehanges of policy that the Farty has undergone since * was written, FOSTRY said that point 31 had been alrendy answered, FCS TN ee ee sei ALL INPOS ETI CONTAINED _ ENCLOSIFE ye wf