Resolution Would Authorize HUAC To Study SDS

There is a "very real possibility that HUAC will soon begin to move on peace groups," Michael S. Ansara '68, secretary of Students for a Democratic Society, said last night.

A resolution introduced in the Congress by Representative Joe D. Waggoner (D-La.) last October will, if passed, authorize the House Committee on Un-American Activities to investigate SDS.

Another resolution introduced by Rep. W.J. Bryan Dorn (D-S.C.) would create a committee to investigate discontent with national foreign policy in Vietnam.

Rep. Joe R. Pool (D-Tex.) also introduced a bill which would impose a $20,000 fine or 20 years in prison on anyone who impedes a member of the armed forces or aids any organization giving support to hostile forces. Arnold Locksnin, secretary of the Massachusetts Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, last night expressed doubts that this bill would pass.

He added, however, that there was a much greater possibility that the resolutions would be passed.

Ansara said that he does not expect the Congress to approve the resolution against SDS but "even if it does, HUAC might not act on it."

"It depends on how HUAC plans to use its appropriation," he explained. "It is likely that they will spend it on either civil rights or peace groups."

"If they do investigate us, it will not be pleasant," he said, not because we have anything to hide but because they have a history of slander and distortion."