| | Sometime in the 1950's he and his wife divorced.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Flato Relative's statement, Charles Flato was not a hunchbacked dwarf, January 17, 2006.]</ref> He was invited to appear before the Jenner subcommitte at some point and was asked questions about his communist affliations. It was reported that he "invoked the privilege" and refused to answer.<ref>''The Twenty Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower'', Chesly Manly, H. Regnery Co., 1957, pge 54.</ref> According to counsel Alfred M. Nittle, "Flato appeared in hearings before the Senate Internal | | Sometime in the 1950's he and his wife divorced.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Flato Relative's statement, Charles Flato was not a hunchbacked dwarf, January 17, 2006.]</ref> He was invited to appear before the Jenner subcommitte at some point and was asked questions about his communist affliations. It was reported that he "invoked the privilege" and refused to answer.<ref>''The Twenty Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower'', Chesly Manly, H. Regnery Co., 1957, pge 54.</ref> According to counsel Alfred M. Nittle, "Flato appeared in hearings before the Senate Internal |
| − | Security Subcommittee, during the course of which he invoked the fifth amendment as a basis for refusal to answer questions, particularly relating to his Communist Party membership."<ref>"U. S. Communist Party assistance to foreign Communist governments ; (Medical Aid to Cuba Committee and Friends of British Guiana) : hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, November 14-15 1962"</ref> Flato did, however, mention prominently Henry Folwer who was Secretary-Treasurer to the South's biggest Communist front organization, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare.<ref>Traitors and Treason, Robert W. Pelton, Buy Books on the web, 2002, pages 220 & 221.</ref> | + | Security Subcommittee, during the course of which he invoked the fifth amendment as a basis for refusal to answer questions, particularly relating to his Communist Party membership."<ref>"U. S. Communist Party assistance to foreign Communist governments ; (Medical Aid to Cuba Committee and Friends of British Guiana) : hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, November 14-15 1962"</ref> Flato did, however, mention prominently Henry Folwer who was Secretary-Treasurer to the South's biggest [[Communist front]] organization, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare.<ref>Traitors and Treason, Robert W. Pelton, Buy Books on the web, 2002, pages 220 & 221.</ref> |
| | By 1957, Flato lived alone in a cottage he had designed by the architect Serge Chermayeff and built in 1954.<ref>[http://ccmht.org/chermayeff.html Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Serge Chermayeff Projects on the Outer Cape]</ref> He lived near a beach in Truro<ref>"U. S. Communist Party assistance to foreign Communist governments ; (Medical Aid to Cuba Committee and Friends of British Guiana) : hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, November 14-15 1962"</ref> on Cape Cod and worked as a freelance writer throughout the 60's and 70's.<ref>Cods: Webster’s Quotations, Facts and Phrases, Compiled by Icon Group International, Inc. Staff, Published by ICON Group International, Inc., page 11.</ref> In 1957 he was the editor of the ''Complete Home Improvement Handbook''. ''The Golden Book of the Civil War'' was a children's book adapted by Flato and published in 1961.<ref>Cods: Webster’s Quotations, Facts and Phrases, Compiled by Icon Group International, Inc. Staff, Published by ICON Group International, Inc., page 11.</ref> His article, "Medicine Looks at Nuclear War: Is there a Doctor in the Rubble?" was published in the June 9, 1962 issue of ''The Nation''. He is known to have used at least one ghost writer in the form of a friend for an article printed in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' on October 6, 1962.<ref>Saturday Evening Post, ''Parents Who Beat Children'', Charles Flato, October 6, 1962, Vol. 235, No. 35.</ref><ref>Cods: Webster’s Quotations, Facts and Phrases, Compiled by Icon Group International, Inc. Staff, Published by ICON Group International, Inc., page 11.</ref> | | By 1957, Flato lived alone in a cottage he had designed by the architect Serge Chermayeff and built in 1954.<ref>[http://ccmht.org/chermayeff.html Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Serge Chermayeff Projects on the Outer Cape]</ref> He lived near a beach in Truro<ref>"U. S. Communist Party assistance to foreign Communist governments ; (Medical Aid to Cuba Committee and Friends of British Guiana) : hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, November 14-15 1962"</ref> on Cape Cod and worked as a freelance writer throughout the 60's and 70's.<ref>Cods: Webster’s Quotations, Facts and Phrases, Compiled by Icon Group International, Inc. Staff, Published by ICON Group International, Inc., page 11.</ref> In 1957 he was the editor of the ''Complete Home Improvement Handbook''. ''The Golden Book of the Civil War'' was a children's book adapted by Flato and published in 1961.<ref>Cods: Webster’s Quotations, Facts and Phrases, Compiled by Icon Group International, Inc. Staff, Published by ICON Group International, Inc., page 11.</ref> His article, "Medicine Looks at Nuclear War: Is there a Doctor in the Rubble?" was published in the June 9, 1962 issue of ''The Nation''. He is known to have used at least one ghost writer in the form of a friend for an article printed in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' on October 6, 1962.<ref>Saturday Evening Post, ''Parents Who Beat Children'', Charles Flato, October 6, 1962, Vol. 235, No. 35.</ref><ref>Cods: Webster’s Quotations, Facts and Phrases, Compiled by Icon Group International, Inc. Staff, Published by ICON Group International, Inc., page 11.</ref> |