[Letter from John W. Stanford to Maury Maverick, Jr., October 8, 1964] Page: 5 of 10
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Broader dfensc of freedo'; but t ci, i more In tha nature
of an aside and not a part of the main argument, which "first
~rd last...relies on the Constitution of the United States..,
2. 35) Perhaps the attorneys who drew up the brief had
vslid reasons for narrowing the attack on the Texas sedit .:,
laws. My own opinion is that a broader attack would have
better answered the arguments raised by the State in its
answer to the petition. o, tlis i: not yzy irwn c_--
,. ,. o....izC Lic t , 3 rl'It is s Vtt'd il j u :: ry
forr .a : ollO;s
coded by federal legislation. The preemption te t
in1 lson V. Pennslvania, 350 U.S. 497 (1956)
--pervasiveness of federal legislation, dominant
f deral interest, and conflict with federal law:
--is satisfied by virtue of the scope of the Texa sY
:;tatutes and their clear purpose to regulate the
ammunist Party and its activities.
h line of attack is sound. But in developing t:i ar-
gument the brief goes far astray, presents false statemeuti,
completely misrepresents my position, and negates the arg'Lzt.
cents I have presented in public statements and in legal
proceedings under the RoCarran Act. The very next pnr^-
'rrrph of the summary argument has this statement :
The activities of the Communist Party bear prin-
cipally upon international affairs, foreign sf..
2iirs, and the common defense....
This statement, in the sense that it is presented here and
developed further in the main argument, is simply false.
do not know what source the attorneys used to arrive
at this "knowledge" of the activities of the Communist
Party. I know they could not have reached their conolu-
sions from reading g worker, Politi41 "fairs, or 003y
othor c rzuni;t publications
r : . .aonl.i. -tat ent e.w r .+t ry xoepti na,
filed with the Subversive Activities Control Board on ..-
camber 11, 1963 -- which, incidentally, I summarized in
wy remarks before the Unitarian Church in Austin, a copy
of -hirh you hive -- - stated
The aims and purposes of the Comruni t arty,
as defined in its constitution, are: "througL
the exercise of democratic and constitutional
rights and participation in the electoral pro-
cess and other forms of activity, (a) to attain
a peaceful world so that the American people andA
l mankind mvy work out their dc cti y freer!-
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Stanford, John W., Jr. [Letter from John W. Stanford to Maury Maverick, Jr., October 8, 1964], letter, October 8, 1964; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1261426/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas.