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word. So they were to a certain extent involved in it, and I felt a double responsibility to them because after all their good names were at stake as well as mine.

Wagner, I think, really turned the trick with Hatton Sumners in persuading him that it would be all right. I had gotten to the point where I called up Hatton Sumners every single evening to know when I was going to be allowed to appear. “Don't you think this week, Mr. Sumners?”

“Well, ah think not before the end of the week.”

Then I would call on Thursday.

“Well, a number of the committee are leavin' town. The ones that are leavin' town are the very ones I want to have there when you're heard.”

Well, it went on from day to day. I thought I should go crazy. He was always postponing it. He finally fixed the date. In memory it seems as though the entire winter was spent on that wretched operation, but it was really only two weeks. When I said that I demanded to appear, we went right to work on my statement. Charlie Wyzanski came down from Boston on a Sunday to help us with it and to see that all was in order. Of course, I had to discuss the Bridges case, and I was very anxious not to make a single statement that not only