“…1953-12-12 035-0019-005 [Oc]tober 1950, the board spent more than two years on the petition of the Attorney General that the Communist Party be ordered to register as a "Communist action organization.…”

“…" NO ONE was much surprised when the board, in April of this year, found the Communist Party to be a "Communist-action organization" as defined in the act and ordered it to register. …”

“…If it finds an association to be a "Communist action organization" (a term apparently intended to refer only to the Communist Party) or a "Communist front," it does not formally proscribe it. …”

“…Apparently it is characteristic of organizations which are not "Communist fronts" that they will jettison the very purposes for which they were founded rather than do something which Communists might applaud. …”

“…1953-12-12 035-0019-004 construed to apply to such acts as selling the Daily Worker, campaigning for a Communist candidate, contributing to the legal defense of an accused Communist, or petitioning for the repeal of the Internal Security Act of 1950. …”

“…Brownell says that "on every major issue" in recent years the guild "has steadfastly followed the party line, and its programs and actions have been consistent with it, excepting only those issues so notorious that their espousal would too clearly demonstrate the Communist control.'' Mr. Brownell seems to have learned from Senator McCarthy that the accuser can rely on deviation and non-deviation simultaneously, the latter to show Communist control and the former to show efforts to conceal Communist control. …”