Lamont, Corliss, Freedom is as freedom does

(New York :  Horizon Press,  1956.)

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244                                                                                       FREEDOM IS AS FREEDOM DOES

quisition. Senator McCarthy's Committee repeatedly brought di¬
rect influence to bear in this regard. For instance, when in 1953
Edward Rothschild, a bookbinder at the U.S. Government Print¬
ing Office, stood on the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer
questions about Communist Party affihations, McCarthy turned to
his Chief Counsel, Mr. Cohn, and said:

"Mr. Counsel, wfll you call the head of the Government Printing
Office and teU him of this testimony? I assume he wfll be sus¬
pended. I can't conceive of his being allowed to go back to the
Government Printing Office and allowed to handle secret ma¬
terial." ^'^'^ At once, David Schine, staff consultant, "hustled to a
telephone booth in the corner of the big hearing room in the
Senate Office Buflding. It wasn't long before McCarthy told re¬
porters word had come back from Phillip L. Cole, deputy public
printer, that Rothschild had been suspended immediately without
pay." 2*^

After Mr. Albert Shadowitz had relied on the Fhst Amendment
in declining to answer questions put by the McCarthy Committee
in its abortive inquiry at Fort Monmouth, a Committee agent
promptly telephoned Shadowitz's employer and demanded that
he dismiss the recaleitiant witness. When the employer argued
that Shadowitz was a valuable worker and supported his family
on the wage he received, McCarthy's man pointed out that this
attitude would be bad for the firm's Government eontiacts. Not
long afterwards Shadowitz was discharged.

In 1954 the Jenner Committee heard some picturesque testi¬
mony from William P. Gandall, who had been a sergeant in the
U.S. Army dming World War II and had served under Captain
William Jenner, who later was elected to the Senate, Gandall
claimed that Jenner had started to "ride" him wliile they were
both serving overseas, and that he was still doing it. The witness
invoked the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer some of
Chairman Jenner's questions. Senator Jenner at once sent tian¬
scripts of the testimony to all officers of Universal Pictures where
Gandall was employed and complained to the Chairman of the
Board over tlie telephone. Gandall testified before the Committee
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