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I Rand, attorneys associated with the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee who have represented witnesses and defendants in matters related to Communist activities. The petition first questioned the constitutional right of Congress to publish anything beyond debates and the proceedings of committees. (The Handbook draws upon committee proceedings but it relies on other sources as well.)

Secondarily, the petition alleged that the so-called Methodist Federation had been libeled by its brief designation on pages 91 and 95 as a Communist “religious front.” Further, the complaint noted that the Federation had not been as yet described as a front by the Subversive Activities Control Board. Actually, the Handbook, referring to the Federation only in passing, understated the judgments rendered against it by the California Committee on UnAmerican Activities and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. (Twice the honored Methodist Church has asked the Federation to cease calling itself Methodist.)

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I Rand, attorneys associated with the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee who have represented witnesses and defendants in matters related to Communist activities. The petition first questioned the constitutional right of Congress to publish anything beyond debates and the proceedings of committees. (The Handbook draws upon committee proceedings but it relies on other sources as well.)

Secondarily, the petition alleged that the so-called Methodist Federation had been libeled by its brief designation on pages 91 and 95 as a Communist “religious front.” Further, the complaint noted that the Federation had not been as yet described as a front by the Subversive Activities Control Board. Actually, the Handbook, referring to the Federation only in passing, understated the judgments rendered against it by the California Committee on UnAmerican Activities and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. (Twice the honored Methodist Church has asked the Federation to cease calling itself Methodist.)