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Supreme Court — Part 21

109 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Jun 18, 1957 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Supreme Court · 109 pages OCR'd
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0-19 (11-22-55) THE-ORDER OF THE BLACK ROBE —". SPEECH in the Housg | isé to inform the memfers of Congress that another Jub- versive cell has been uncofered here in _. — Washington almost in the shadow of the nation’s capitol, This cel] is at present en- gaged in a program of undermining the founda- tions of the Unjted Witchhunters and is pling upon the pringples down ‘by our four fathers: ME&Carthy, Digs, Walterl] and Eastland. — At the present time, according te information im the files of J. Edgar Herbert Hoover, the cell has nine members, meets regularly on Mondays — except during the summer months — when it engages in subversion, immersion, caunter-mersion and even plain, undisguised mersion. At their meetings, the mem- _ bers of the cell show their con- tempt for our American ways and customs. As a badge of their subservience to a foreign power, they do not even dress Americany but wear long | justice Department imidenile i black robes. heir meetings are cond bea foring to strange = ‘They pledge one another fo se- crecy as to their deliberations and if any member reveals a de- cision before the group is ready, - he is done away with. The members of the cell ad- dress one another by the foreign term “Judge.” The language of their writ- jaqe ran eoella smlarctind 3 CSM Ge Sasuy UWGSTSitae only by the initiates. They are full of references to what. they eall their classics; Commission- er V. Sunnen, 333 U.S, 591,6- 1-602; Tait V. Western Mary- land R. Co., 289 U.S. 620; the They ‘have received enw 1957 OUJUL i oy . Bu e e e e By ALAN~™4-4X tions from abroad to infiltrate the Smith Act and havesse-disas- snembered it that our esteemed colleagues here, Rep. Howard Smith, author of the sacred law,’ is considering changing his name ito Hinklewinkle, They have a policy of what they call “concentration.” When a matter is before them, they discuss it informally and then turn it over ta one of the mem- bers with instructions to “con- trate,” One of their main targets has been the House and Senate In- vestigating Committees. As the honorable menibers here kyow, if ghese committees collapse our ly-of hot air is endang ifbur hot air supply goes, en alltof Southeast Asia, Alaske and Palo Alto wild fal like dom- inces. ; T have been asked by an hon- orable member of this House whether the situation is as se- ricus as 1 have pictured it and whether the facts are as grim as 1 have given them here. 1 can — only say that this information comes straight from J. Edgar Herbert Hoover who has_ his men planted in all echelons of this subversive network. And I can inform the House that there is at least one agent of the In- wa Yn vi eet? af which I have spoken, un- beknown +5 the other members. \ “a wes zi Boar a Bel Ma — Mohr arsons en amm Nease Finterrowd Tele. Room Hallemas rowan Gandy N. Y. Journal American N. ¥. Times Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N/SY. Mirror . Y. Daily News —W Daily Worker _4 The Worker New Leader Date 4-20-57
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