Shirley Kremen, Carl Ross, Samuel Irving Coleman, and Sidney Steinberg v. United States

LEMMON, Circuit Judge.

A depressing tale of lies, disguises, and aliases resorted to by a group of seasoned subversives, referred to by their own attorneys as “these Communists”, is unfolded by the record in this case.

It is a tale of how a handful of Reds sought to shield a convicted member of their group from condign punishment.

It is a tale of the devious practices to which they resorted in their almost successful efforts to cheat the law.

It is, finally, a tale of how their deceptions and their subterfuges were frustrated at last by the patient labors of Federal “Cossacks”, as officers of the…