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Show pOR several years the Commu-A Commu-A nist Party has been called everything ev-erything from "an international conspiracy to a "subsidiary and .puppet of the Soviet Union," yet it was not a crime for an American to belong. In 1941, the Dies Committee recommended outlawing foreign-dominated foreign-dominated parties and got nowhere. no-where. Thirteen years after that recommendation, Congress this year has received more bills 15 specifically to outlaw the Communist Commu-nist Party than were Introduced at all the sessions between. Fourteen such bills were introduced from 1941 through 1952, and a total of 19 In 1953-54. But the Eisenhower Administration Administra-tion has its own anti-Red program, and outlawing the Communist Party is not part of it. Attorney General Herbert BrowneU recently argued that such a law might: drive the estimated 25,000 Communists Commu-nists underground, making it harder hard-er to weed them out; raise "constitutional "con-stitutional doubts" about the rights of individuals under such a law; and contllct with and invuli-date invuli-date the "principal legal weapons" now aimed directly nt the Com-munlsta. Com-munlsta. These "legal weapons" include: laws requiring forol(,n ,a , register, prohibit!,,,; f0(io,i em. Ployment ot persons who nio mem-bers mem-bers of political groups advocatlK (Hatch Act), making lt a urlmc to advocate overthrow ot the U.S. government by force or violence, (Smith Act), requiring the re. tration with the attorney gen of Communist-action or Comm nist-front groups (Internal c ity Act of 1950), and eign-born Communists to "1' , gory of Inadmissible and W able aliens. ton Despite Administration' signs, the drive to outlaw the munist Party has been gain momentum in Congress time. Fifteen of 19 bllls ;d were introduced this year call for penalties ransi' bans against holding W1'" ( elective and otherwise,, u r;J citizenship. 10 yoa h fines as high as S-'U Sponsors of the four Si-. are: Sens. Margaret '" r, (R. Me.); Charles h. f .': Mich.); Mike MansIleM u- and Homer Ferguson s SpMoraofthel5IU;ui;wlE. are: Hops. George A. wK Mich.); Wm..C. Cole h. Cecil R. King ID. CahO. dy IR. Mich.); narley (D. (D. W.Va.); Robert T. (B. Ohio); Charles J- ' .K Wis.); J. Frank Wilson . Ray J. Madden tD. ir0i; Dies CD. Tex.), th-vo h Harlen Hage.i yO. Call". . I.. Carrlgg ill. r-: aml O'llrion IP. N.Y.). r.irty Support for outlaw" " Ilf. has come from the f'm ,Vm ,:lo, Veterans of .n. Daughters of American r0Sj. and other Membctn oi |