Show WESTBROOK why prosecute thomas T phe HE vigor of the department of ustice justice in prosecuting congressman parnell thomas the chairman of the committee on un american activities is a dramatic reproach to the same bureau when we consider the attorney generals iron apathy toward the traitorous conspirators exposed by the thomas committee at worst it if he be guilty thomas filched a few thousand dollars and at did that under a logical it if rather daring extension of the common practice of nepotism on capitol hill on the other hand dozens 41 of individuals planted in secret recesses of the government N ern ment were stoutly accused by standup 1 witnesses of betraying the united states to the russian enemy the department of justice has ignored these cases even russian aliens implicated in the same bana of conspirators conspirator have not been molested tol ested jid a few days ago tom clark the attorney general and mrs dark clark were photographed in happy social doings at the soviet embassy thomas is charged with defrauding the government by kickbacks kick backs from real persons who were fictitious employees he is a rotund d hick of a vanishing american type whose social errors in the examination of witnesses were the honest patriotic blurts of the typical main street insurance man druggist or service stati orist IT WAS NOT BY HIS DOING THAT congressional PROCEDURE WAIVED THE TRICKY legalistic TANGLES OF THE COURTS this method of getting information was there when thomas became I chairman of the coan committee cittee established tested and vindicated long ago he just made use of it and the gruesome tact fact is that for all his prejudice against traitors and spies he is no less judicial and la fair ir than many of the fully arti articled c ed judges of the federal courts now I 1 sitting |