MATHES, District Judge.
It is now almost six years since the defendant at the bar, Oleta O'Connor Yates, and thirteen other paid, fulltime functionaries of the Communist Party were on trial in this court under an indictment charging them with conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States [18 U.S.C. § 371] prohibited by the Smith Act [54 Stat. 670 (1940), 18 U.S.C. § 10 (1946), § 2385 (1952)] "by wilfully * * * advocating and teaching the duty...
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