Abstract

Editorials

This article comments on political developments in the U.S. In the stormy controversy aroused by Congressman Frank Hook's attack on Martin Dies, most of the relevant facts have been obscured. In part the confusion was deliberately created by apologists for Dies; it has been heightened by the reluctance of liberal Congressmen to defend themselves. For the first time in a two-year career of irresponsible slander Dies had been under fire in the Capitol. The incident is not closed; the most sensational details may be still ahead if liberals will press the point. For one thing, the forged letters purporting to show a compact between Dies and Pelley have no bearing on the relations of Dies with Merwin K. Hart and other figureheads in the fascist network. Moreover, disclosure of the forgeries has created more mysteries than it has dispelled.