House Committee on Un-American Activities - House Committee on Un-American Activities

...The origins of such national policy review and legislative activities as a means of confirming the loyalty of the people and strengthening domestic unity go back to the founding of the country, but more recently, after both world wars, they have been active in relation to the political activities of anarchists, socialists, and communists. The most famous of these is the House Committee on Un-American Activities (abbreviated as HUAC, commonly known as the Soybean Committee), which was established as a special committee in the House of Representatives in 1938. HUAC was originally established with the aim of suppressing subversive activities by domestic Nazi sympathizers, but it soon shifted its main target to communists, and after it was promoted to a standing committee in the Republican-majority Congress in 1945, it became a stronghold for the "Red Scare" by right-wing members of Congress such as RM Nixon. ...

*The following is a partial explanation of the terminology used to refer to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

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…国民の忠誠を確認し，国内統合を強化する手段としてのこのような国政審査･立法活動の起源は建国期にまでさかのぼるが，最近では両次世界大戦後にアナーキスト，社会主義者，共産主義者の政治的活動をめぐって活発に行われた。なかでも1938年に連邦議会下院に特別委員会として設置された下院非米活動委員会House Committee on Un‐American Activities(略称HUAC，通称ダイズ委員会)は有名である。HUACは当初，国内のナチス支持集団による破壊活動の抑制を目的として設立されたが，やがてその主要目標を共産主義者へと転じ，45年の共和党が多数を占めた議会で常任委員会に昇格して以後は，R.M.ニクソンらの右翼的議員による〈赤狩り〉の牙城となる。…

※「下院非米活動委員会」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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