-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I see nothing in her obits or biographical info that says that Doris Brin Walker was a Nuremberg prosecutor. She had only graduated law school (the only woman in her class at Berkeley) in '42, and she was a really OUT red. She recruited Jessica Mitford to the CP -- Mitford was the mutual friend who told JK Rowling about her nickname "Dobby."
^^^^ CB: Yeah, I haven't been able to find it either. But I seem to remember a picture of her very young there, sitting next to the Mr. Justice Robert Jackson.. I went to several meetings in Doris' apartment in San Francisco. Maybe I'll call Ann and ask her. Or maybe Chuck will ask Ann.
Newsflash: I just called Ann Ginger. She said , no , Dobbie wasn't a prosecutor at N. She said I am mixing her up with the late Mary Kaufman, who I met in those lawyer meetings with Ann and Doris.
There's a picture of Mary at this sight: http://intlawgrrls.blogspot.com/2007/06/women-at-nuremberg-prosecutors.html
By the way, in the derogatory terminology of some of the left she , Doris, was a "STALINIST" until her death. And she did not leave the CP when Angela Davis did.
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The Davis case was her most high profile one, but her lonely defense of Communists during the first cold war laid the groundwork for Yates v. U.S., which essentially made it legal to be a communist in the US, burying, for practical purposes, the Smith Act under which the CP leadership was convicted and imprisoned in the late 409s. The Smith Act, 18 USC 2385, is still on the books, never repealed, in case it's needed, making it a crime for anyone to:
knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise or teach the duty, necessity, desirability or propriety of overthrowing the Government of the United States or of any State by force or violence, or for anyone to organize any association which teaches, advises or encourages such an overthrow, or for anyone to become a member of or to affiliate with any such association.
There has not been a Smith Act prosecution since Yates in 1957.
^^^^^^^ CB: I agree that it was technically legal to be a Communist in the US after all that, but it was still _illicit_ , which is probably more effective in making Communists practically ineffective in the US. The threat of being unable to get work is just as effective as the threat of being imprisoned, and it allowed the US to retain a liberal face, have its cake and eat it too.
The other Guild lawyer who was very important in _Yates_ was Ben Margolis. We were on an economic rights committee in the Guild together circa 1989. He lived in LA then.
http://law.jrank.org/pages/12626/Yates-v-United-States.html
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As a law student in 1971 Hilary Rodham Clinton interned at Walker's law firm, Treuhaft, Walker, and Burnstein (Bob Treuhaft was Jessica Mitford's husband, btw), during the prep for Angela Davis trial. Obviously it didn't take.
Ray Ginger, Ann Fagan Ginger's husband, wrote the classic bio of Eugene Debs, The Bending Cross.
Andie