H, 1940-1961

Correspondence with Justice Philip Halpern, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, relating to Halpern's requests for material on activities of the United Nations in the field of human rights. Konvitz comments that non-Americans always have difficulty understanding that in the United States there is no "minorities" problem, except for the Indian. Rather, the problems in the United States impinge on individual rights (September 14, 1954). Correspondence with United States Senator Thomas C. Hennings, Junior on a resolution introduced by Hennings to curb abuses of committee power in the Senate by introducing codes of fair procedure (January 26, 1955). Letter from J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of investigation, in reply to a request from Konvitz for a copy of Hoover's article, "How the FBI Tracks Reds and Spies" (November 26, 1952). Correspondence with United States Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Labor and Labor Management Relations. Humphrey requested that Konvitz testify before the Subcommittee on the subject of Communist domination of certain unions. Konvitz could not accept the invitation because it conflicted with his trip to Liberia (May 19, 1952). Correspondence with other persons regarding scholarly, academic, and personal matters.