PUBLIC LAW 601, 79TH CONGRESS The legislation under which the House Committee on Un-American tivities operates is Public Law 601, 79th Congress [1946], chapter 53, 2d session, which provides: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States America in Congress assembled, * ** PART 2-RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RULE X BEC. 121. STANDING COMMITTEES 17. Committee on Un-American Activities, to consist of nine Members. RULE XI POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMITTEES * (g) (1) Committee on Un-American Activities. (A) Un-American activities. 2) The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommitis authorized to make from time to time investigations of (i) the extent, aracter, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propands that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks e principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and all other questions in relation thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary medial legislation. The Committee on Un-American Activities shall report to the House (or to the rk of the House if the House is not in session) the results of any such investition, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable. For the purpose of any such investigation, the Committee on Un-American rities, or any subcommittee thereof, is authorized to sit and act at such es and places within the United States, whether or not the House is sitting, recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, to require the attendance such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, and take such testimony, as it deems necessary. Subpenas may be issued under signature of the chairman of the committee or any subcommittee, or by any ber designated by any such chairman, and may be served by any person ignated by any such chairman or member. RULE XII LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT BY STANDING COMMITTEES Sec. 136. To assist the Congress in appraising the administration of the laws din developing such amendments or related legislation as it may deem neceseach standing committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives exercise continuous watchfulness of the execution by the administrative cies concerned of any laws, the subject matter of which is within the jurisdicof such committee; and, for that purpose, shall study all pertinent reports data submitted to the Congress by the agencies in the executive branch of Government. RULES ADOPTED BY THE 86TH CONGRESS House Resolution 7, January 7, 1959 RULE X STANDING COMMITTEES 1. There shall be elected by the House, at the commencement of each C gress, * (q) Committee on Un-American Activities, to consist of nine Members. RULE XI POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMITTEES 18. Committee on Un-American Activities. (a) Un-American activities. (b) The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommitt is authorized to make from time to time investigations of (1) the extent, cha acter, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United Stat (2) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American pro aganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin a attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constit tion, and (3) all other questions in relation thereto that would aid Congre in any necessary remedial legislation. The Committee on Un-American Activities shall report to the House (or to t Clerk of the House if the House is not in session) the results of any such inves gation, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable. For the purpose of any such investigation, the Committee on Un-Americ Activities, or any subcommittee thereof, is authorized to sit and act at such tim and places within the United States, whether or not the House is sitting, h recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, to require the attendan of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, a to take such testimony, as it deems necessary. Subpenas may be issued und the signature of the chairman of the committee or any subcommittee, or by an member designated by any such chairman, and may be served by any perso designated by any such chairman or member. 26. To assist the House in appraising the administration of the laws and developing such amendments or related legislation as it may deem necessar each standing committee of the House shall exercise continuous watchfulne of the execution by the administrative agencies concerned of any laws, the subje matter of which is within the jurisdiction of such committee; and, for the purpose, shall study all pertinent reports and data submitted to the House b the agencies in the executive branch of the Government. VI ISSUES PRESENTED BY AIR RESERVE CENTER TRAINING MANUAL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1960 UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D.O. The Committee on Un-American Activities met, pursuant to call, 10:00 a.m., in Room 228, Old House Office Building, Hon. Francis Walter, of Pennsylvania (chairman), presiding. Committee members present: Representatives Francis E. Walter, Pennsylvania; Morgan M. Moulder, of Missouri; Clyde Doyle, of lifornia; Edwin E. Willis, of Louisiana; William M. Tuck, of rginia; Donald L. Jackson, of California; Gordon H. Scherer, of io; and August E. Johansen, of Michigan. (Appearances as noted.) Staff members present: Richard Arens, staff director; Frank S. venner, Jr., counsel; Donald T. Appell and Raymond T. Collins, estigators. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order, please. Members present at the convening of the hearing: Representatives alter, Moulder, Doyle, and Scherer.) The CHAIRMAN. Some few weeks ago, this committee began hearon the subject of Communist activities and propaganda among th groups. In opening those hearings I stated: know that this committee's investigation in this area will probably pretate a barrage from the Communist press and from Communist sympathizers racterizing our work as an investigation of youth. The Communists know, well as we do, that the overwhelming majority of the young people of this ion are of unquestioned patriotism and dedication to all that is good and e in our society. But by equating an investigation of Communist activities og youth with an investigation of youth itself, the Communists and their pathizers hope to becloud the issues. This, of course, is an old trick which Communists repeatedly use. When this committee investigates Communist rities in defense plants, the smoke screen that the Communists use is that are investigating organized labor. When we investigate Communist activiin an educational institution, it is protested by the Communists that we are stigating education. I am sure that the overwhelming majority of the rican people readily see through this fraud, and it shall not dissuade us our task. Ithough the only witnesses who were subpenaed for those hearings Communist activities and propaganda among youth groups were d-core members of the Communist Party who had been identified ach under oath, the Communist and pro-Communist press of this leased by the committee and ordered to be printed. country followed the course which I predicted on the day on w the hearings were opened. Typical of the reaction which I anticipated was a statement of columnist that the Committee on Un-American Activities was 1 engaged in intimidating children. An editorial in the Washington Post proclaimed that the C mittee on Un-American Activities: aims to stigmatize as subversive a healthy curiosity and a yout hope that peace can be promoted by letting young people of the world elbows and minds. With reference to the hard-core identified Communists who v subpenaed before this committee, the Washington Post edito stated: The House Committee on Un-American Activities has now used its sub] power to hale before it five young men and women who had the temerity t tend one or another of the youth festivals held at Moscow, Warsaw and Vie Based on extensive experience as chairman of this committe now predict that the instant hearings will be publicized as an vestigation by the Committee on Un-American Activities of religi that we on this committee are concerned about religious beliefs theology; or that certain ministers of the gospel must be subver because they advocate tenets with which the committee does not cur. Again I say, as I said when we were investigating Commu activities and propaganda among youth groups, that this divers ary tactic will not dissuade us from our task. We thoroughly pect attack by Communists, pro-Communists, dupes, and misgui liberals who would use the facade of religion to mask Commu activities. We on this committee are as proud of our enemies as are of our friends. In the military stalemate between the forces of freedom and ternational communism, the chief arena of conflict has now shif from the military to the nonmilitary. The enemy's threat, howe becomes even more dangerous because it is more difficult to de and engage in combat. His arsenal includes weapons of inter subversion, espionage, sabotage, propaganda, and economic and po ical warfare. His objective remains the same destruction of free societies, conquest of the world, and enslavement of manki The battlefields are every institution and organization of society, cluding the home, the church, the school, and every agency of Government. During the past summer a 2-week National Strategy Seminar 200 carefully selected reserve officers from all over the Nation held at the National War College in Washington with the dorsement of the Department of Defense and with the assista of the Reserve Officers Association, the Foreign Policy Resea Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Institute American Strategy. The officers who attended this seminar did not study milit science. They did not listen to lectures on military strategy, tact weapons development, and other subjects usually associated with Armed Forces. Rather, the major theme of this seminar, at wh score of the country's top authorities on communism lectured, was fourth dimensional warfare" or, as it is sometimes called, "political warfare" combat aimed at destroying an enemy by nonmilitary means. This is a combat science which has been developed by the Communists to its highest degree in the history of civilization. An implication of this seminar-and a point previously made by many experts-is that this country could be conquered by Communists without a shot being fired; that the military know-how and capabilities of our Armed Forces, our tremendous array of weapons, and the huge sums spent to develop them might never be used in a final defense effort to prevent the enslavement of the American people. In this struggle between freedom and the forces of slavery, the Congress of the United States has charged the Committee on Un-American Activities with the responsibility for maintaining continuing surveillance over the agitational and propaganda activities within this Nation, of the international Communist conspiracy. It has also charged it with continually reviewing the administration and operation of our security laws for the purpose of recommending such revisons as are necessary to cope with the everchanging Communist threat. Recently the Secretary of the Air Force, Dudley C. Sharp, was quoted in the press as "categorically repudiating" the Air Reserve Center Training Manual as representing Air Force views. Much of this manual deals with problems of Communist infiltration and subversion. Indeed, in the sections dealing with this subject, there appear numerous quotations derived from hearings conducted by the Committee on Un-American Activities, in which are presented authoritative statements by experts on each of several facets of the subject. Since it appears that the "categorical repudiation" of the Air Reserve Center Training Manual by the Secretary of the Air Force stemmed largely because of statements in the manual respecting "infiltration of fellow-travelers into churches"-see manual, page 15-14-all God-fearing, freedom-loving people would do well to pause and reflect on the irresolute opposition of atheistic communism to religion. Here are the words of J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation: Communism is secularism on the march. It is the mortal foe of all the world's religions which acknowledge the existence of God. Either the faith of our fathers will triumph or communism will engulf us. In this land of ours the two cannot live side by side. Nowhere among the leaders of the Communist Party in the United States, Russia, Red China or in any other part of the world will you find one who loves and believes in God. God is truth. Communists hate truth and, therefore, they hate the church. One of the leading slogans of the Communist Revolution in Russia in 1917 was: “Religion is the opium of the people." This was first uttered by Karl Marx, the founder of communism, in 1843. Lenin, now resurrected by the Kremlin as the Communist idol and guide of Lue present and future, restated it in 1905. *** Nikita Khrushchev, the present Lead of the Russian Communist Party, publicly proclaimed that Communists tave not changed their opinion on religion and said: "We remain the atheists that we have always been; we are doing all we can to liberate those people who are still under the spell of this religious oplate." 52029°-60—2 |