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| G ~ ) , |e President. The usual club-house nm will look for a cush job in governmen and probably never get it. But he will stick by his party and do its dirty work because that is all that he ts fitted to da. ia an agent of an international conspiracy designed to overthrow every government by whatever means the devils in Moscow employ, but he fs never consulted. By a Process called Democratic centralism an «lite moves upward to the top and then it is expected that all under thes will obsy orders. Now, the Kremlin is employing a combination of threat and charm, Khrushchev started a new tone of chara on the C.B.S. telecast but the threat is there all the time. The American Commnist find chara @ very difficult instrument to use, although he is excellent as a liar, Un- der the Watkins Case decision in the Supreme Court, the Commmist is now privilege to lie all he likes because he my lie by silence. fe amy not be required to an. aver @ question which could include the nawe of another Commmiat. He may refuse- to answer puch questions. A man may lie by silence without committing perjury. I is a great advantage. T Auchg the Communists it is even moreso. The man or woman down the line Therefore, when you analyse it, what can he be asked? Let me put it to you this way: Suppose a witness were askeds Is 1¢ true that you Were present in : particular house in San Francisco where plans were being laid to steal the atom bomb? Suppose he answers, yes, Then he is sakeds Who else was there? He may reply that by virtue of the Supreme Court of the United States he need not answer. Now this 19 not a far-fetched example, I am citing an instance which could coms q at any time. . | Wait until this is carried down to state court levels, There you will see the effects of much careless, political decisions. One would imagine that som of the Suprese Court Justices are campaigning to run for President in 1960 and are looking for the so-called liberal vote. Well, you san imagine vhat you like about these brethren, but their decisions need some clarification or we shall be left without law in this country and our law-enforcement agencies, already hamstrung by inadequate appropriations and shortage of manpower, will be utterly helpless. In- I stead of law-enforcement, we shall have a periious condition of local judges basin, decisions in criminal cases on the Commanist decisions of the United States Suprem Court, Por in this country, a felony la a felony no matter of what kind and the Seith dct made membership in the Communist Party a felony, So 1a murder. $0 is i[etdnepping. oe? ; ns Admittedly cur system of law ie peculiar and difficult, In many Buropeat and Asiatic countries, there are special laws for political offenders, In Soviet Russia, the political offender is treated altogether differently, and usuelly worse ‘then og ondimery.criminal, ds a matter of fact in a Commmist country there are Bore ¢.stesn against the atate then against the individual. In the United States such distinctions are not made, except in eclvil suits involving Courts of Claims, There 1s only one politicel offenge againat the United States and that is treason in tine of war, Treason is defined in the Gonatitution. It ia a crime diffienit te prove and the punishment ia death. In the cage of the Rosenbergs, treason was extended to peace-time and the penalty was death. The Rosenberg trial is the clas sic example of the relationship of Commmnian end treason. Alger Hiss was never tried for anything but perjury and his conviction waa for that. It may be that the only offense for which agents of the Kremlin in this i] country can be held hereafter is treason and on the rare cocagions when thet oan be