The Time Is Now

Three years after he refused to answer questions of the House Un-American Activities Committee, pudgy Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, trudged off to a Washington, D.C. jail last week to begin serving his one-year (plus $1,000 fine) sentence for contempt of Congress. Dennis protested that it wasn't fair to jail him while he was busy appealing two other sentences which he had incurred since: five years and a $10,000 fine for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government, and six months for contempt of court for his disruptive conduct while defending himself against the conspiracy charge. Federal Judge David A. Pine turned him down. "Litigation at some time must come to an end," said the judge. "The time for the law to take effect is now."

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