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Title"Don't you see? If we ask for all this, they might settle for just letting us continue to operate"Other Titles (e.g. Variant)"Don't you see? If we ask for all this, they might settle for letting us stay at the same old stand"TypeStill ImageCollectionClassificationLCC: BLOCK, no. 4805 Could not render: bf:statusNoteForms part of: Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress).SummaryEditorial cartoon drawing showing two members of the Committee on Un-American Activities standing in front of the doors to the 86th Congress. One man, carrying a bucket of tar listens as the other man, carrying the sign "Request for new Authority," says, "Don't you see if we ask for all this, they might settle for letting us continue to operate." Created in 1938 to uncover Nazi spies, the 1940s the House Un-Americans Activities Committee (HUAC) had successes - the conviction of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chamber - but also its share of failures, among them the blacklisting of 300 prominent "Hollywood" luminaries. HUAC's prestige began a gradual decline beginning in the late 1950s. By 1959, the committee was denounced by former President Harry S. Truman as the "most un-American thing in the country today."Authorized Access PointBlock, Herbert, 1909-2001 "Don't you see? If we ask for all this, they might settle for just letting us continue to operate"