We agree with the Surrogate that notwithstanding the clearly precatory language used by the testator in "suggest[ing]" to her residuary beneficiaries that they use their legacies "to support and further the purposes of organizations and movements" with which she had been identified, an issue of fact exists as to whether the bequests were induced by the beneficiaries' promises to donate their legacies to the Communist Party. A high ranking member of petitioner Communist Party...
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