In 1960, during the pro-democracy movement led by Lei Chen, Hsieh Han-lu, then a member of the Taiwan Provincial Assembly, became executive secretary of the "election reform association." As a result, during those four critical months in the history of Taiwan, he not only participated in this effort among intellectuals to do something for their country, he personally experienced the atmosphere of fear of a Kuomintang purge.
在一九六○年以雷震為首的民主運動中，時為台灣省參議會參議員的謝漢儒，因身任「選改會」執行秘書，在台灣民主運動最關鍵的四個月裡，不只參與了當時知識分子對國家的行動熱血，也親身經歷了當年國民黨整肅的恐怖氛圍。