European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Smittee on in american activities Colv Lyles committee opens Public hearings into the communist influence in Hollywood. Committee member rep Wood investigations marked the end of Hupac s heyday. In 1948, Whittaker Chambers a senior editor at time Magazine testified to Hupac that Alger Hiss had been a member of the communist party in the 1930s. Here he reads of fury s verdict. Moscow and his fourth Summit with soviet Leader Mikhail s Gorbachev among others testifying during those years were director Etia Kazan writer and performer Abe Burrows playwright Clifford gets and actor Zero mostel Many of the Hollywood witnesses exercised their fifth amendment right not to incriminate themselves for the committee taking the filth was considered an acknowledgement that one was a communist if you had nothing to hide panel members reasoned Why take the fifth those who did refuse to answer the committee s question a Ifo in danger of being cited for  of Congress a an opted to toll All he i new he no on confessed that to had been a member of Tho communist party briefly in 1934-35, but Nanh others he new had belonged As Well Odets named names Loo Kazan promoting his new Book of a very hard decision to make but i thought the Congress has an absolute right to investigate anything like that anything like the communist party in this country he said a an had directed two of Miller s plays. An / sons and death of a  after he testified her Var directed another work by his longtime trend Hollman in 1952 tried another tack Rauh recalled that Hellman said she could t name names and she could t go to jail because she was not the kind of person who could survive in jail Sho said she was perfectly willing to talk to Trout herself but i to problem War that if she did a at jul herself she waived the privilege against sell inn meation Rauh said they worked out an arrant fwd  Hellman would write a letter to the committee a plan Ming that Phr would waive the fifth amendment if the committee would not ask her about other people to hurl innocent people whom i knew Many years ago in order to save myself is to me. Inhuman and indecent and dishonourable i cannot and wih not nut my conscience to lit this year s fashions she wrote the committee did not like Hellman s stance but never pursued her further the Hollywood investigations Markt a the end of Hupac s heyday the events that followed the 1953 death of Josef Stalin who had ruled the soviet Union with an Iron fist for 2-1 years the Senate s 1954 censure of Mccarthy and the end of the korean War in 1955 set to motion the committee s demise Hupac s last stand in a sense came in the into 1960s and Early 1970s, when it held Public hearings on duh War groups and such terrorists As the symbiont so liberation army Richard Ichord then a democratic congressman from Missouri was chairman of the committee to recalled that by the late 1960s. Hupac did t have the support it commanded after world War ii the russian bar had become a bugbear " in 1975, loss than six months after in on at forced out of the presidency by watergate the House reorganised to Structure of various committo rep Don Edwards. A Calif. Introduced the Resolution to the House democratic caucus to abolish the committee i m Happy to say that my motion passed to said i never saw such a last Hammer in my life and on Jan 14. The Lull House gave its assent to a final irony the House voted to Transfer Jinn suttion to Tho civil and constitutional rights subcommittee of the House judiciary committee the subcommittee the littoral Edwards headed. To hold the hearings to the right Way on civil rights and civil liberties Edwards said Hupala i a Kangaroo court it acted As an investigator prosecutor judge and jury of men and women whose Pum a social and economic views Tho commit too thought a in contemptible " ichor to Sadk he is disappointed that the Jui Junr commit left has not continued to Root out . I Don t thin1 Tho russians have changer thaw  j. I still believe that the soviet Union is using International communism in an Endeavor to Eek world  so the debate Over Hupac continues. 13 years alter its death. As the journalist Edward a Murrow said in his 1954 broadcast that brought Tho downfall of Mccarthy. To did t create this situation of fear he merely exploited it and rather successfully. Cassius was right the Lault dear Brutus to not m our stars but in ourselves in May 25,1988 the stars and stripes Page 15