Senator SPARKMAN. I think it was introduced. I will be glad to have you pass it to the reporter to make certain it is in there. (The document referred to appears as follows:) [Pamphlet of the Second Annual Convention of the American Law Students Association] YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN LAW STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION The Harkness Theater, Columbia University, Saturday, February 12, 1938; Sunday, February 13, 1938 PURPOSE Law students today find themselves preparing to practice in a rapidly changing world. Whether the lawyer opposes or favors the changes taking place, he recognizes the need for adjusting the technique of his work and the internal relationships of his profession to the new requirements of the community. Law schools must not lag in this general reorientation if they are to continue to perform their proper role of advancing and improving the profession. Alert law school faculties have already been pressing toward a rebuilding of curricula and pedagogy to meet the demands of the day. Alert law students have begun to move in the same direction. The cry for practice courses, for solid training in Administrative Law, for more adequate attention to business, labor, and legislative methods, and for a broader social perspective on the work of the courts has arisen everywhere; and the cry has begun to meet with response. The solution to these new problems cannot, of course, be sought wholly through curricular adjustments. Today law students seek opportunities to develop their capacities not only as competent, up-to-date lawyers, but also as good citizens. The highest ethics-which involve a recognition that service to the community is the primary professional obligation-cannot be learned in classrooms alone. To appreciate his ethical and civic responsibilities, the law student must become fully aware of the questions confronting both the legal and lay community; he cannot remain blind or passive to the turmoil in the world about him. The most advanced law schools are therefore encouraging not only Law Reviews, Moot Courts, and Legal Aid services, but also various types of forums, junior bar associations, and discussion groups. Law students are not blind to the personal problems which will beset them upon graduation. They know the difficulties of obtaining satisfactory legal employment, or of assuring themselves security as private practitioners. They are aware of the havoc wrought among lawyers by the depression, and are seeking to prevent repetition of that havoc. Many of them face acute financial problems even now, while at school. More than forty percent of all law students are forced to study at night. The number of those who must leave school before graduation, despite good grades, has become alarming. If these many problems are to be faced, a common medium must exist for the expression of law student views, desires, and interests. The American Law Students Association came into existence in response to precisely this need. Its sole purpose is to represent the attitudes arising out of the situation in which law students find themselves-to provide an instrument, in cooperation with school administrations, the bench, and the organized bar, for the evaluation and betterment of that situation. It has met with a cordial response wherever it has made its purpose plain. The American Law Students Association has now been in existence for one year. It is holding its Second Annual Convention to survey its achievements, to plan its perspectives for the next year, to adopt a permanent Constitution, and, above all, to introduce the Association to the law students and law schools as yet unacquainted with it. REPRESENTATION At its Second Annual Convention, The American Law Students Association wishes the participation of as representative a crosssection of law school opinion as is possible. Therefore, official delegation by law school organizations will not be a requirement for admission or for participation in the proceedings. Representation by organizations is of course desired where possible. But every law student, recent graduate, or instructor will be welcomed. Law Review Staffs, Moot Courts, Legal Aid Societies, Pre-Bar Associations, Student Councils, Legal Fraternities, and the other Law School organizations are urged to give serious thought to the aims of the American Law Students Association, with a view toward participation in the work of the Convention, and to cooperation or affiliation with the Association. To facilitate such discussions, copies of the draft Constitution, to be submitted for amendment or approval at the Convention, will be forwarded upon request. REGISTRATION Registration will take place in the lobby of the Harkness Theater at Columbia University, beginning at 9:00 A. M. Saturday, February 12, 1938. There will be a fee of fifty cents to nonmembers and of twenty-five cents to members of the Association. There will also be an opportunity to indicate at that time whether you plan to attend the dinner on Saturday night. Saturday, February 12th: Morning Session 10:00 A. M. Convocation. PROCEEDINGS Dean Young B. Smith, of Columbia Law 10:30 A. M. President's Report: The First year—And After. Mr. Robert W. Page, President, A.L.S.A. 11:15 A. M.-Election of Convention Chairman and the Resolutions, Constitution and Nominating Committees. 11:45 A. M. Address: The Law Student in a Changing World. Mrs. 12:30 P. M. Luncheon, Afternoon Session 2:00 P. M. The Convention reconvenes in four Seminars, as follows: Seminar 1) Legal ethics and responsibilities (to consider especially participation in Legal Clinics as one form of legal service; and the law students' obligations to society as a whole). Discussion Leader: W. Bruce Cobb, Counsel, N. Y. Legal Aid Society. Seminar 2) Economic Problems Facing Law Students and Recent Graduates (to consider school costs, scholarship and other aid, and problems of employment and clerkship). Discussion Leaders: Isador Lazarus, Committees on Professional Economics of both the National Lawyers Guild and the American Bar Association; and David Scribner, President, Lawyers' Security League. Seminar 3) Adapting Law School Curricula to Changing Demands for Legal Services. (To consider standards of scholarship and admission, needed.courses, teaching values.) Discussion Leaders: Burton A. Zorn, General Counsel, New York State Labor Relations Board. (Other leader to be announced.) Seminar 4) Coordination and Differentiation of Law Review Work; and the Work of Moot Courts. Discussion Leader: Prof. Nathan A. Greene. to be announced.) (Other leader 5:30 P. M. The Convention reconvenes, and Resolutions formulated by 5:45 P. M. 6:45 P. M. Evening Session the Seminars presented. Consideration of Resolutions. Adjournment for Dinner. 6:45 P. M. Convention Dinner, John Jay Mezzanine Dining Hall. Paul J. Kern, Commissioner of the Municipal Civil Serv- Sunday, February 13th: 2:00 Address. (Speaker to be announced.) 2:30 Further Consideration of Resolutions. 3:30 Report by Constitution Committee; Discussion and Adoption of Constitution and By-Laws. "I wish you all success."-Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan. "I am completely in sympathy with the work which your Convention is doing. With best wishes for the success of your enterprise."-Robert H. Jackson, Assistant U. S. Attorney General. "With best wishes for the success of your Convention."-Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington. "Wishing you well in the various directions through which you aim to promote and realize the best standards and aims of our profession."-Professor Felix Frankfurter. "Such an organization will at least make law students connected with it aware of the many difficulties and problems which confront them, and this alone will be of value. * * I wish you success."-Gelson G. Glazier, Secretary-Treasurer. State Bar Association of Wisconsin. "Best wishes to those assembled."-Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. "I am thoroughly in sympathy with the program you are promoting and I hope interest in it will be greatly accelerated through your association meeting.". Dean Leon Green of Northwestern Law School. "Wish you every success."-Chief Justice Frederick E. Crane, N. Y. Court of Appeals. "It appears that your work is progressing nicely and I congratulate you upon your success."-Dean Charles E. Clark, Yale Law School. "Best wishes."-Professor James J. Hayden, Catholic University of America. "Fullest, cooperation wherever possible."-National Executive Board of National Lawyers' Guild. "Am indeed interested in what your Association is undertaking to do, and wish you all success."-A. A. Berle, Jr., Chairman, N. Y. City Planning Commission. "I wish you a successful meeting."-Professor John S. Bradway, Director Legal Aid Clinic, Duke University. "With every good wish for the success of your convention."-Senator Robert F. Wagner. Address all communications to THE AMERICAN LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Room 530, Woolworth Building, New York City DISCUSSING REFERENCES PERTAINING TO LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Ambassador JESSUP. Thank you. That gives the full list that is given in the pamphlet of the various greetings received. Now, Mr. Chairman, it seemed to me that the discussion of the subversive nature of this American Law Students' Association was left in a state of some confusion in the hearings. I tried to check the record, and would like to present my understanding of the facts in regard to these various citations. First I would like to consider Senator McCarthy's statement that the American Law Students' Association was cited as a Communist front at pages 1067 and 1093 of appendix 9 of the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1944 the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives issued its appendix 9, and the subject of this appendix was Communinst-Front Organizations. Chapter 126 of appendix 9 was entitled, "Miscellaneous Communist and Communist-Front Organizations." This chapter began with the following statement: In this section of the report will be found numerous exhibits of Communist and Communist-Front organizations. The personnel of these organizations reveals an extensive interlocking directorate with the other organizations that are discussed in these volumes. In his memorandum on the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, the Attorney General has called attention to the importance of the "interlocking directorate in identifying Communist-front organizations." But the chapter did not, Mr. Chairman, purport to list Communist and Communist-front organizations. The next sentence stated that "The exhibits reveal a part of the personnel of the following organizations." No. 20 on the list of 102 there reads: "American Law Students' Association, bearing union label 209." I suggest that that is not a citation. It is merely a statement: "The exhibits reveals a part of the personnel of the following organizations: * Now, it has been the practice of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, I understand, to publish a comprehensive compilation of the organizations which it and other official Government agencies have found to be Communist fronts. The American Law Students' Association, so far as I have been able to find, has not appeared in these compilations. I think that is correct. The conclusion is apparent that the committee did not make a finding that the information which caused it to be listed in chapter 126 of appendix 9 justified considering it as a Communist front. Senator McCarthy also attempts to characterize the American Law Students' Association as a Communist front because it was represented at the American Youth Congress, although it was not suspect of itself in this instance. According to the doctrine advanced by Senator McCarthy, he would have to declare as subversive the YMCA, the Boy Scouts, the Young Democrats, and the Young Republicans, as they also participated. Now, I am aware that in that connection the American Youth Congress list contains different types of participation. There are two lists given of organizations, one of which I think is supposed to be a list of participating organizations, and other I gather are various representatives of local branches of other national organizations which participated. It is not quite clear whether it is the representatives who participated or whether the national organizations participated. They include, as I say, the YMCA, Boys Scouts, Young Democrats, and Young Republicans. I am going to offer for inclusion in the record, if it is not already in, Mr. Chairman, exhibits from these reports which show the data on the inclusion or exclusion of the American Law Students' Association. The last I was referring to is the testimony, I think, of a man named Hinckley. Senator SPARKMAN. Without objection, those insertions may be made. Ambassador JESSUP. If I may keep them for just a minute, in case I have to refer to them, then I will give them to the reporter. (The papers referred to appear as follows:) [Excerpts from Un-American Propagana Activities, appendix IX, printed 1944, pp. 1067, 1068, 1069, 1093.] MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNIST AND COMMUNIST-FRONT ORGANIZATIONS In this section of the report will be found numerous exhibits of Communist and Communist-front organizations. The personnel of these organizations reveals an extensive interlocking directorate with the other organizations that are discussed in these volumes. In his memorandum on the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, the Attorney General has called attention to the importance of the interlocking directorate in identifying Communist-front organizations. The exhibits reveal a part of the personnel of the following organizations: 1. Ambijan Committee for Emergency Aid to the Soviet Union. 2. American Artists Congress (bearing anion label 209). 3. American Artists Congress (list of exhibitors). 4. American Artists Congress (signers of a call for). 5. American Artists School (faculty). 6. American Association of Scientific Workers. 7. American Committee for International Student Congress Against War and Fascism. 8. American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born. 9. American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan. 10. Anerican Council to Combat Nazi Invasion. 11. American Friends of the Chinese People. 12. American Friends of the Chinese People. 13. American Friends of the Chinese People. 14. American Friends of the Chinese People. 15. American Friends of the Chinese People. 16. American Friends of the Chinese People. 17. American Friends of the Chinese People. 18. American Group. 19. American Labor Party. 20. American Law Students' Association (bearing union label 209). 21. American League for Peace and Democracy. 22. American League Against War and Fascism. 23. American Peace Mobilization. 24. American Russian Institute. 25. American Society for Technical Aid to Spanish Democracy. 26. American Student Union. 27. American Student Union. 28. American Writers Union (bearing union label 209). 29. Anti-Nazi Committee of Yorkville (bearing union label 209). 30. Artists League of America. 31. Associated Film Audiences. 32. Association of Documentary Film Producers. 33. August Peace Parade and Jane Addams Memorial. 34. Baltimore Council of American-Soviet Friendship. 35. Bronx Anti-Poll Tax Committee. 36. Brooklyn Non-Partisan Legislative Conference. 37. China Rally Committee. 38. Citizens Peace Committee of the District of Columbia. 39. City Projects Council. 40. Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism. 41. Committee for Defense of Public Education. |