The Roundup

Off to jail last week for contempt of Congress went lean, bushy-haired George Marshall,* who lent his name and gave thousands of dollars from his inherited fortune to Communist-line causes. He was convicted for refusing to name contributors to his party-line National Federation for Constitutional Liberties when asked by the House Un-American Activities Committee back in 1946. Marshall wanted to serve his three months in Manhattan's West Street jail (where Party Secretary Eugene Dennis is behind bars for the same reason), was locked up instead in Washington, D.C.

Scheduled for jail next: Novelist Howard Fast and ten other board members of another Communist front, the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee. Also cited for contempt of Congress, they begin jail terms this week.

Soon to go, and for the same reason: Screen Playwrights Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson and the rest of the "Hollywood Ten" who refused to tell the House committee whether or not they were members of the Communist Party.

* No kin to Soldier-Statesman George Marshall, Movie Director George Marshall or Laundryman George Marshall, owner of the Washington Redskins.

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