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Introduction

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,--
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.

-- “Lay of the Last Minstrel,” Sir Walter Scott

The excerpt from Scott’s poem above describes a traitor and it conveyed the concerns of the Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in 1949. After World War II, Russia’s strength and the fear of communism gripped the nation. The land of the free did......

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