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er: if CAN kw (Beals ~ Direct) HY 100-1752 (Tk. $/20/49) (Th. 14,666) MoQCHTY cbjected. fhe Court seid that {t is obvious thet the answer is Syes* ao it wold let it go at thst. The Court sid thet it aid not want ite ruling misunderstood. it did not know sunt whet GLADSTELE wer working up to tut bed # nction, | a A ec OLADSTETN asked bow many titles of books are avatiable to the emer public ‘wrog the Mew York Jublic Library. (tr. 14,666) McOUREY objected. Sustained. GLADSTEIN asked if the Library msce availavle at any tim fron sprit, 1945 : to July, 1948 various titles of books written by KARL mee, | PRIEDRICH panne _*¥. ie LEXIN or OCSLF STALIN. | (TK. 14,667) MoOCHEY edjected. The Court. acid that there was alresdy geome evidence to the effact that sons or all of these books are in the Putlic Library. it would ellos the question, although somenhat cumlative. BLS ssid the anger te yes. GLADSTLIN asked ir the “Conmuniet ¥enifesto" ty MART and ANGSLS was made Svailable to members of the public during thet peric¢, - + (PR. 14,667) MeQOREY objected. Overruled, = BEALS eaid yes, OLANSTEIN handed BELLS a copy of the "Communist wnifesto? and asked if thet was evailable in the Library end if st wee protuces fron the - Library itself. BaiLS said yor. ah mote ae iv (TR. 14,668) MeQOHST objected. the Court asked to hear the basie ef MeGQCHTY'S objection, saying thet there hed been proof that many of these books are found in public Libraries generally. Mc3OR:T said that whether . these books are in the library fe imasterial and irrelevant to the jesues. He recalled that DANI". BOONE SCHIFRICR had testified that he first read the *Commnist Manifesto" in @ public library in Massachusetts, and that that pert of his aneser was not responsive to the question ed¢ressed to bim. QREEN had testified at length sbout books he had read as a young - boy and may very woll have teatified that he read them in the Library. 7 : ' Jf that be so that probably hss sone relevance on the question of intent . Le. and motive and on the question of the elrcurstsnces under which the defendant - GRLEN became a member of the YCL and later a mexber of the CP. Tha proof adduced by the Governnont szhons thet in carrying out the eonspiracy charged in the indietment the defentents ecntvcted achools and distributed litersture and that they uesd books by MPI, ENGiLS, LENIN and STALIN sa inetrumonte not in the carrying out of the conspirecy, bot ac instruments in carrying on their teaching program, The fact that these tocks are availeble in the public library er in college or privete libraries hee no relevence or m.teriality to the fague. 18 _ ec ee ee we ee ae eee ee ee ee ee