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And also Remington had got his mail at a box which was subscribed to by the Communist party, and used that box as his own personal box. I think that was thrown out. It wasn't proven.

He wasn't indicted on the first testimony. But then on the second trial, you see, they turned up the testimony of his wife that he had been a member of the Communist group in Dartmouth College, and that he had been a member of the Communist Party in some place up the river. That evidence had not been brought before the Loyalty Review Board because she was still married to him. She had divorced him in the meantime, and turned up ready to testify before the court on his indictment.

The suspicious thing in his case was that his mother-in-law, his wife's mother, was a leading Communist, and nobody denied it. She was a rich woman who owned a very nice property up on the Hudson River, up at Croton or beyond, which had tennis courts and swimming pools and general pleasant Sunday afternoon entertainment to which Remington and his wife had had free access whenever they chose. They were up there practically every weekend. She was a leading Communist. She was a very outspoken one, and on every committee and everything, and publicly so.

He had married the daughter. I don't know whether the





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