U.S. COMMUNIST LEADERS
LAST FUGITIVE SURRENDERS (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, March 6. The last fugitive Communist tried in the first Smith Act trial surrendered yesterday to begin serving a five-year prison sentence and face contempt proceedings for his flight. The fugitive. Henry Winston, a negro Communist leader, had announced that he would surrender in letters to the newspapers as his fellow fugitive, Gilbert Green, did a week before. Winston and Green were among the 11 United States Communist Party leaders convicted in 1949 of conspiracy to advocate or teach the violent overthrow of the United States Government Defendants who did not flee have completed their prison sentences Winston said he had chosen flight “as my method of struggle against a growing Fascist menace.” The menace appeared to have been overcome, he said.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27912, 8 March 1956, Page 10
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