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5/7/43
'•What could be plainer than this statute? It is said that the chief of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice recommended that this statute be invoked in the case of Representative Cox many months ago. Why has the Attorney General side-stepped the issue? Does he wish to give the impression that the penalties for violation of the law are reserved for the meek and humble who hold no official position? Unless the Attorney General is ready to enforce the "law impartially, letting the chips fall where they may, he will himself be guilty of gross misconduct in office. Surely mere delay or inefficiency cannot account for the department’s long silence in this case. It is high time for Mr. Biddle to let this evidence go before the grand jury or acknow¬ ledge a policy of unequal justice before the law where politics are involved, "
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HOUSE EXPECTED TO VOTE ALLEGED FCC EMPLOYEES OFF PAYROLL
A Government agency’s open defiance of a Congressional edict will be tested on the House floor next week.
The House Appropriations Committee, it was reported, will ask members to vote approval of legislation discharging from office Goodwin B. Watson, and William E.Dodd, Jr., employees of the Federal Communications Commission,
On April 21, the Committee issued a report finding the two men guilty of subversive activity which it defined as "conduct intentionally destructive or inimical to the Government of the United States".
Despite the group’s decision that Messrs. Watson and Dodd were unfit for Government employment, FCC officials refused to fire the two men, contending their activities were in no way harmful.
Determined to answer this challenge to Congressional authority as quickly as possible, the Committee has decided to attach to the Navy Department Appropriation Bill coming up next week an amendment forbidding the future appropriation of any money to pay the salaries of Watson and Dodd, Watson receives §6,500 a year a 8 "Chief Analyst" of the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, and Dodd gets §3,200 as "Assistant News Editor" in the same service of the FCC.
House approval of the rider is considered virtually a certainty. A spectacular battle probably will be put up by the small bloc of radicals in the chamber, but an overwhelming majority of members have previously indicated their disapproval of Communism in high Government places.
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