Newark letter 11/16/44
Re: CPA, District 14;

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"Tine! weekly magazine dated 10/16/44, revealed that
Pablo Picasso announced he had joined the French CP. Two days

later he learned that 15 of his sensationally emperimental
paintings (on exhibition at the annual Salon O'Automne) had

been torn down by a Partisan mob, which fled in-true Partisan
svyle before the police could identify anyone.

Serial cescriber above
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eppeartng tn the Caracas press, tnuterviewed Maurtce

leader tn France, Freancotse Maurtac, the Cathelto thinker, Andre

Walranz, the writer, Lute Aragon, the poet, Padle Ptoasss, the
end Spanteh reattance -

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- , “ovemente. v are or, : .
as s. After Otera's'returs to Caracas, Venszuste, on 0/97/45, ~

he planned on writing o series of articles which woutd appecr fn the

WET Naotonal,” eonoerntng Ate tntervtews with the sbove mentions
tndtutduale tnoluding Ptoasso, as well az the leadera of doth French

a4 ond Spanteh reatetance novenents.

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7 i e copy of @ Yetter on the aire
f the of the J4&?HO, 102 Lectngton Ave., ¥Y0, whtoh:
fated under the caption, "Appecie Officers,” the wang Pablo Picos
Honorary Chairman. + ‘, fae Boure ‘ Poe yp

" & Mewepaper artiole fron the "#Y Journal dnertoan” of =
3/29/48, revecled that Representative Thomos was credited with |
asserting that the JATRO wos G communist front orgastactton under
, she dontnation of the CP and the world connuntet movenent.
Representative onae further efted the JAFRC honorcry chatrman, |

Jo Ptcoaseo, as having recently announced Ata membership tu the
7 : i 7 : ae . Ml 5 i7

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. The following is quoted from "Current Biography,
Who's News and Why Vol. @ No. 1 January, 1943" published by

The H.W. Wilson Co. New York: . :
PICASSO, PABLO - Oct. 25, 1881 - Artist xX
Address: h. 23 Rue La Boetie, Paris, 8e, France

"We all know that art is not truth," Picasso once
said. "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least
the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must
know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness
of his lies.” Undoubtedly more controversy has raged over .
Picasso than over any other twentteth century artist. By e
nov, of course, his importance, tf not hia greatness, ts
universally conceded, "Even his opponents,” commented Time
Magazine, “admit that Picasso has influenced the art of his
time more than any of hia contemporaries.”

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in Malaga on the
Mediterranean coast of Spain on October 25, 1881, the son of
Jose Ruiz y Blasco, an art instructor at the Academy of Arts,
and Maria (Picasso) Ruiz, who was of Italtan ortgin. Although
Picasso's family name is Rutz, he preferred the greater euphony
of Pablo Picasso, and, after 1901, dropped Ruiz entirely from
his signature, retaining only his mother's name.

When Picasso was about fifteen his father was
appointed professor at the Barcelona Academy of Fine Arts and
the family moved to Barcelona. Picasso had drawn well ever
since the age of eight or nine. According to Ramon Gomez de
la Serra, his first exhibition was held in the door of an
umbrella shop while he was still a boy. He passed the
entrance tests for the Barcelona Academy in 1896, "taking,"
wrote Alfred H. Barr, "only one day for an eraminatton so
difficult that a whole month was ordinarily allowed for tts
completion. A few months later he repeated this prodigious
performance at Madrid. But he soon grew so bored with the
sterile atmosphere of the Madrid Academy that he returned to
Barcelona to set himself up as an tndependent artist at the
age of sirteen." At this time he dectded that he would never
use a model, and he abided by this self-imposed regulation
unttl many years later. When he was seventeen years old one
of his pictures won him a prize at a municipal art exhibition.

Although Picasso renained tn Barcelona until 1900,
he occasionally visited Madrid, where he fraternized with
"Azorin, Beroje, Palomeros and nameless young men who sought



an ae
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: fhe 12/29/47 tooue of the "Fashtagton Fuentng Star"
_oontatred 6 column "On: the Reoerd® dy Dorothy Thompson. The

“Sopte *, the eoluns ‘was "Chapltn, Trench arttatesPies ‘for Ftele
ferned -Poltttoe They Deplore.” The arttele etated that
 Oharite Chop. tn oadled @ dozen French writers end patatere, one

+, PabLo Picase ektag then to pretest the a as Y te Gernan:;

|400<195280-d a
s/t Foentag Star”

pttal report of p ine se Senate Fact Findtag Counttées

-. 4 & pertte “
1 Tralnertocn portial tn ‘cet the ge 1048, revealed that one of the -
“Comuuntet Front Organtecttions” was the BRA of the JAFRC. The 2
ohatrnan of the ergantsatten was Dr. Edward KX. Sareky, end Pedle
Ptoasec, Frenoh erttet, whe had announced Ate menbershtp of the —--
CP, wae Henorery Chatrnan.

Monn tes

‘A copy of the "Fourth Report
TnwAnertoan Activities te Caltforate
" 2968cCommuntet Front Orpentzat fone” .
“pecetved from Setater “Gelty i
. Tenney of Loe Angeles, 0s: Ofee
' enolosed with ; a. “ rr
4 } Director's Offtce stephens
~~" Room Note 5/6/48 Fs
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yo OREN,

trart. = She SW of B/4 MY, eontat ea on arttole referrtag to the

tag days es be held a 8/8,9 and 10/47." The arttole stated” the

~ Margaret Webster, Director of the Repertory Theatre and Chetras'
if the 1947 Spanteh. Refugee Tog. pan ton, om the g preceding és:

had released a padle from Pablo Pioasse eoncernte tees ;

ong the ‘panteh Repudltcane estled’ ts Southers |

. on ‘whee, s JAFRO rally was herd wad n & quars dardes
te Yew York City. fhte relly wae eponecred by the SRA whtch ee
' Relptug te ratee funds fer the relsef and rehabtittatten af Spanteh ~

Repuditean refugees. A greett. © Ploaeee, the noted potnte;
was enneunced te the eudtence attending ratty) :

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: ‘On 6/9/48 the Los Angeles 6, Ptee: re sated the JY 0, tee’
o to deterntne whether or not Charles Chaplin ee ually sent « telegra
i to Pablo Picasso tx France tn Nevember, 1947. By letter dated 8/20/4

, . the HY Offtoe advieed that the Mackey Radio Serutos, TC, wat
_, eontacted but waa unable to locate the above nenttoned telegram

Because semmim fost tons for ovendery 1947 aed been destroyed. ~

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Yc. Seba reference t2 @ translation from French of en arttele-
~Whtoh appeared $n the nagagtne called “Dendoratte Nouvelle” dated: --.
Ry 1948. hte ertiole ape wettten by Merce! Feilerd;eutteles =:

“ World Congress of The Intellzotuals For Peace.” The arttole |
reveaied that fron 8/85/48. te 8/28/48, the tutellectuale fron
“two ‘continente would meet tn Freclew, Pelend, te dtecuse and
= | deotde how they tatended toe fulfti. thetr veaponstdtlities wtth

wegerd te three great thence? 1. Voe war tnevitedle, 2, Could
‘veal freadon be ertended te ever widentng etrate of hen end -
wonen, Ghd would the extension tuply thetr equal rights with. -
regard to thetr dignity without dtetinotion of race or condition,

S. Would tt be beceseary 4" the general tntereat of progress, te: *.
| .c+ guarantee the free developnent of eulture, research, the unltntted ©.

.., Btffusten of works, dtecovertes and tnventions, One-of the nendere -

“Of the "Organtrtng Conntttee” fron the French Seott f the Congress
i was Pioeeto, potter, Joey geod : Loe,
& / NS. : aes 3

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DT". figures tn hte ‘ederacten di ri
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“io for Peace,” whteh . $0 88 held 8/5010/4P tn To gtve the
j >) @eongrese prestige and Oe t eepect deptred te.
wet. h he Spas soass
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fee Mextoo, DF. rpt 9/90/49
Re: <Anertogn Conttrental Congress
For Peace (Congress Continental
duertoene Por La Paz);

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This reference is a G-2 report covering the pertods
i from 11/15/44 to 12/15/44. The report revealed in part, that
: eur the Communists hailed the deciston of Pablo Picasso, great

Spanish refugee painter, to join the CP as as lar achievement:
for the Communist parties throughout the eo lb)

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Re: Spanish Activtties In Th

»Mew York Division; . }
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The 10/21/é¢ issue o* the "Dv" contained an article
entitled "Why I Became A Communist,” by Pablo Picasso. This
article set forth a cable sent by Picasso from Paris which
“had been printec in the current issue of "ew lasses." In
Parentheses above Picasso's cable appeared the followinas
"Three wees aco Patle Picasso joined the French CP, Though
it electrifiec the world of culture it was not surprising
news. In France's struggle for freecom, her lonmunists have
Played a mammoth part in alliance with the resistance
movement as a whole. And an artist with such magnificent
eves as Picasso's could see for himself who it was that best
defended the cultural values of our time. Picasso lived tn
Paris throughout the Nazt occupation. The Germans tried to
win him, but at the risk of his life he eefier then.”

6029902 1-4  "Datly Vorker,"

19/21/44
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This reference toe ébble sensorshtp dated 2/26/45,~"
"confidentt

eglassi fied

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A report of the 1945 hearings before the HCUA, Washington,
DCG concerning the tnvestigation of Un-American Activities an’

Propaganda set forth tnformation regarding the JAFRC investigation.

During this investigation tt was brought out that two JAFRC press
releases were on file for 1945, which were recetved tn March, by
the Presidents War Reltef Control Board. One was a release put out
by Edward Harrison of the SRA which announced that Lillian Hellman, -
who had just returned from a four month's tour Pf the USSR and
England, would be honored at the cinner opening the SRA. The
release also stated that the Unttartan Service Committee tn
Toulouse, Paris, and other cities would distribute the funds, and
the Committee of Spanish Republicans tn France would advtse where
the need was the greatest. One of the members of the Committee was
Pablo Picasso.

It was noted that this report was recetved from a highly
confidential source and should be maintained as strictly confidential »
and that no reference be made to tt tn any reports.

Above described HCUA rpt
enclosed with

WFO Memo 3/8/46

Res CP,USA; mo.

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=, expressed were those of drs. Grant... Soe ite oe oe

rt was noted the inforhatton contained tn this report
was obtained from a review of a menorandum prepared by Mrs. Natalie
Grant of the American Embassy, Parts, France. The optntons

Paris, France rpt 6/15/45
Res sy Braneg 702 ye /

Republigues Socialiates.

Sovtetiques (France-YRSS)°
Friends of The Soviet
Union - IS-C

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on! Se 9/8/25, th ontathed @ eclumn by:
‘Mike Gold on pape 1 @ Bt ‘Change the Yorld.* . In :fism:
hte column Gold etated t @ Anertoan GI's who were tn Parte,”
+ Franoé, was not the gane kind of aray es fn the Zest war, GI
vtatting Parte went to ece the Eiffel Sewer, the Foltes Bergere
Gnd the French painter, Pablo Piocsec whitch estontehed the art
Gealers because of the GI's general tntereet tn ert end Ploasac,
Gold etated that the Gr'e tn Parts were reported to be buytag many
5 Aad ert prénte freu the dealera on the average of one te ete ee
casso'’s a day... cae nao we So

ok” 400nt1e959—4 "DE" ¥/o/as
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Stour Falle letter, 7/85/45
Ret SRA of the Stpay

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V4
The letter, in port, stated the following: "How
different Picasso is, everything about him ts human and
sympathetic. I recall when he was at my ezposttton tn Paris,
he talked with me as though he had known me all my life, and
always, whenever he saw me after that in the cafe, he gave me
advice that has been very useful to me. He is an Andalusian,
full of grace, with clear eyes that give the senation that
the entire untugree rests in them. When he told mes" a---
and above all, don't forget that its’ necessary to
by disturb the a ie had the countenance of a boy who had
Just played a trick. Fundamentally he is like a child full
of enthusiasm and vitality at 63 years. And he had sufficient
courage to stay in Paris after it was taken by the Nazis. He
i e only painter who has openly insulted them. Mh
ak... him if he had done the mural, "The Bombardn
uernica, he immediately ansrerec: "I did it? You did it

yourselves.”
fopy of above discribed
letter enclosed mith
to WY, &/é/44
p. 2
bt ,
bad Re: Spantsh Activittes in New
York Citys;

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% Musee del ‘Art Modern,
Paris, France

. . Rue - Saugustins,
Paris, France

‘7 Rue Des Grand August
Ins., Parts 6, France

Golfe Juan, France
Occupations:
Sculptor and Painter

1917-19273 chief designer for the :
Draghlilev Ballet

1926-1929: , Dtrector of the Prado
Gallery, Macrid

Published several issues of a magazine Arte Joven~

(Younn Art)
Oroantzaticnal Affiliations:

Committee For Aic To The
Spanish Republicans

Committee of French
Intellectual Friends of Spain

French Gonmiitee for the
"Defense of the Twelve"

French Communist Party
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee

Spanish Refugee Committee of the
Jotnt Antt-Fascist Refugee Committee

Spantsh Republicans tn France”

Union of Spanish Intellectuals

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aa

Acoordtng to the Office

exchanges ef cables wit
requeeting her te arrakge wits Pable Pic
te Parte, to prhibtt bie potatinga | th
aD. coursed | on Aprtt % wa

Wr, te 6/13/1 ae
5i/alet,, m¢ ine aed

Orch detres Tae Red Cuosr “
. Bote Drat fm Red Three)
* Kept onoge Maas
: eS aeeecai pe 8 :

SI to paragraph 2 above
re aahemeos Pe 2

wade Las shsa hats °

~~ = She June, 1945, teaue of "The NetworkTM published by Ruth --
Ftacher tn Hew York, contatned on arttole on page & revealing that
several rantficattons Ground the CP ‘were organtatng tatellectuale,

. arttete and literati of all vartettes. The organtgatione were

‘ expectally atrong tn Parts, France where the most promt nent

“ tetellectual figures of the country had fotned the CP, auch ae Paul

Langevin, Mee. Jolic-Curte, the oe Phocsss Gad ethers.

of above deacrtbed seoue
axl oged with

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per {agjrooonrcete Eps

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Te Washtngton Field Office had no tdentifyteg tafornat
to the Picasso referred to above dut the posetdility wee peta
:-" OUb that the Pfoaseo referred to night be nttoal mith Pable
> yy Ploaseo, renowied Spanteh orttet who had been tdentified tn the
/. .Pacent past tn coanectton with sottuttses of the Werld Peace

-" “Organtwatten. ~~. aca an Tee NG

77
. be

POR 7 ; :

{| ante referguente te erenin, deted 4/3/45, classifi
Lerington dve., STC 10 Picasec, nd Auguat Ine,
Parte 6 (France). Cable quoted as follows: "Conntttee great fully
cooepte fonorary Preatdency tupelling grestly help Spanteh Republtear
people etop FErposttion your patutings here would creste ayupathy
Bish cause for Bitch you are Go taterested produc tag taportens.
8 premensery tnoome for help tn France stop The expeattten would ©
‘. De transcending event of cultural taportance 4m Featers Hentaphere
“\etop Would eend twelve even ftfteen or more of your recent patntts
for your firet exposttton here of the works produced durtag the i
[ae you dtd with the "Gerntea” nu atop Discussed profect with x
-peveral gallertes Museun of Modern Art tnoludtag 1 Of then dest
to mount the exhtbitton etop We would arrange easurakoe trangportatte:
round trip stop Conntttee of 100 arttets dnertoan end European, -- '*

formed te anonenr the exrnoetttian whitish sanld eauéethute ¢o aenenothen
ge SO Sp strengenes

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22 INVESTIGATION OF UN-AMERICAN ACTYVITIES AND PROPAGANDA

‘Two press releases were on file for 1 received in March by the
‘ Prenident’s War Relief Control Board. ‘Thi first fencarned a special
le to Barsky from Martha Gellhorn asking for aid to Spanis!

‘ eth se in France. She reported from London that 100,000 Spanish

refugees in France were in need. The release stated thet the Refugee

. Committee would conduct a Spanish Refugee 3 Appeal to raise $750,000.

‘The second press release was put out by Edward Harrison of the

Spanish Ref Appeal and announced that Lillian Hellman, back

from a 4 months’ tour of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and

England, would be honored et 2 dinner opening the Spanish Refuges

Appeal. § were announced to be: Lisa, Sergio, Carl Van Doren,

Richard Wai te, Jr and Dr, Barsky. The release also stated that

the Unitarian Service Committee in Toulouse, Paria, and other cities

would distribute the funds, and the Committee of Spanish Republi-

cans in France would advise where the need was greatest. Members

~ of the Committee of Spanish Republicans in France are Pablo Picasso,

Manuel Azcarate, General Riquelme, Julio. Alvarez, Professor Bal-

cella, formerly of the University of Barcelona, and Jesus Martinez.

. On the following will be found a list of the managing officers

(ot the 3 Committee, « list of its distributors of funds, and a

tabulation of money spent for relief, and total cash receipts.
Organized in New York City im March 1942 by amalgamation of the United
American Spanish Aid Committee, the Exiled Writers Committee, and the Ameri-
‘ can. Committee To Save Refugees, . . .

Managing officers:

Hon rary

Prof. Walter Rauchenstrauch, School of Engineering, Co-

ty, York City.
an: Prof. Richard P. Cox, 180 Morningside Avenue, New York City.
Chairman: Dr. Edward K. Barsky, 127 West Bighty-aixth Street, New York City.
‘Treasurer: Prof. LymanR: Bradley, 15 Chariton Street, New York City.
Executive Secretary: Miss Helen H Bryan, 817 West Fourth Street, New York
ty. ~

New York Chapter: Leverett Gleason, 114 East Thirty-second Street.
Boston Chapter: Florence Luscomb, 7 Water Street.
3 Mildred Bioch; 208 North Wabash Avenue,
Chapter: Mies Mary Ann Eubanke, 8505 Sonset Boulevard.
San Francisco Chapter: Mra. Marion Kater 68 Post Street, Room 604.
with ‘State

: March 11, 1042,
transferred to President's War Relief Control

Cuba: Assoclacion Naclonale de Ayuda A los Victimas de la Guerra en Espana,

vena,

Dominican Republic: Board of Christian Welfare.
Primo Giordani (direct).

France and Colonies: Unitarian Serviee Committee (1945).
Senor Gilberto Bosques, Mexican Consul, Marseilles (1042),
American Friends Service Committee (July 1942).
Mexico: Federaction de Organismos de Ayuda al la Republicans Espanola,
Mexico City (later known ss Federaction de Organiamos de Ayuda e@ los
Refugiad Buropeos).

+ Kendall Kimbertand, Representative of American Friends Service

: Victor! Gaeet (May 29, 1945),
‘orian y e
Portugal: Unltarian Rerrice Oomiaitiog ~
in: Unit iD

tarian Service Committee,
eat itarian Bervice Committee.

‘Hebrew Immigration Ald Society (H, 1.4.8). oe
Nore‘This committee haa not becn able fo tavastigate theultimate rue af fide
abroad.

Department. July 1042, registration |

y Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee remits funds to the follow-
\ ing distributors of funds in foreign countries:

ry aa

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CONTENTS

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A newspaper clipping from the "py," page 3, column 1,
dated 10/7/44, entitled, "Famed Arttst Jotne French CP," stated
that Pablo Picasso, one of the world's greatest painters, hac ~
jotned the CP of France. Picasso, who portrayed Nazi brutality;
and had shown his staunch support of the Spanish republic at
Guernica, Spain, was featuring his first art erhtbit in
liberated Paris, France. Photo of Picasso set out.

etary "Datly Forker”
dated 10/7/44

(2)y 7

ST 1094199625911°5, pe 1
CADW y

The 10/12/24 tssue of the "D7" contatned an article
entitled "October ‘Communist’ Probes Hortzons of Teheran. The
article was a review by Joseph Fields of articles in the October
issue of" The Conmunist."” Fields remarted that the editors
of "The Connunist," gave the best description when they said
that "it helps to deepen our understanding and apprectation
of the heroism, the self-sacrifice, the polittcal steadfastness
and magnificent organization oj the French people's anti~fascist
forces, in the forefront of which the CP of France brought to
the task of liberation pre-eminent contributions of courage,
organization and theoretical clarity." According to Fields,
"The Communist" editors helped people to understand the reason
why Pablo Picasso steppec forward to take his place in the
ranks of the Party.

100-85585-A "DF"
10/12/44

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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

“Name: /Pablo Picasso, “Paslo Picaso, fade Picasso,
“Pablo Rutz4Picasso, vOne%Picasso
Pirthtate anc rar : . .
Birthplace: 10-25-£1, Malaje Andalusid, (Spain)
Relatives: Father - Jose ruiz y Blasco
Nother - Marta(Picasso)Rutz
Wife - Olga Koklova (Divorced 1937)

Son  - Pablo Picasso
Tivec quietly with a woman many years his Juntor, who
was also an artist d Communist by whem he had two children.
(names not given). (dep 17) of 8
_Edueations Barcelona Acacemy of Fine Arts
Macrid Academy of Pine Arts

Picasse was founder of the "Ovbist" School of Painting.

Addresses:

1896-1990: Barcelona, Spain

19903 Parts, France

1991: Madrid, Spain

19023 ° Paris, France

1939: Lived in Vallauris,
(A1pes Maritimes)

1943-: 23 Rue La Boetie,

Paris @F, France



' »
/ This reference ts an undated Office of cuore ee
« report, olagst fied”oonsidential, entitled, "France, Political.
Acttutties (Spanish).

by ort revealed that on 1/0/<s, TT.
JAFRC, 192 Lexington Ave., Hew York, Mew r
ea letter blo Picasso, Musee De L'art Moderne, Quai de Tokio,

Paris, France, stating that the JAFRC was campaigning to raise
funds for transportation, relief, and rehabilitation for Spanish
Republicans in Lisbon, North Africa, Santo Domingo, Cuba, Mexico,
and believed by using Picasso's name as honorary chairman for the |
campaign, would insure large funds for the purpose. Picasso was
to cable whether or not he would except the position of honorary -

chairnan,
62-627. 7-562, p. 2 , .
(1 -~ , "

ao

"Tine" weekly news magazine, 1/22/45 tsaue, revealed
that a meeting was held last week in Pablo Picasso's studio in
Paris with a group of French intellectucls in attendance. The
meeting 'g purpose was to hasten the overthrow of Dictator Franctsco

Anco. .

"tine" 1/22/45

payee p. 26

4A newspaper clipping from the "DF" dated 1/30/45, carried
a photo of Pablo Picasso, world famous artist, chatting with Marcel
Gachin, a member of the Central Committee of the French CP, and ‘
Jacques Duclas, co-secretary of the French CP, The scene was taken
just after Picasso had entered the office of L'Humanite to declare
his tntentions to jotn the Communists.

64-200-231-A "Daily Worker"

- US /

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Mc 100-743¢ de.

"TIME" AND JHE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION -

The June 2h, 1957, issue of “Time” magazine contained
en article dealing with the forthcoming presidential succession
in Mexico and listed the names of various cabinet officers who
seemed to have the best chances of becoming president. Since
the article seemed accurate and carefully written and since it
did no mre than publish data which is common knowledge in
Mexico City, the Mexican reaction was curious. Mexican .
publications indignantly termed it an example of ignorant ofS
meddling and emphasized that the writer was obviously a
foreigner with no knowledge of his topic. Some Mexican writers
saw the erticle as a planned effort to reduce the chances of :
certain candidates, Only a few Mexicans admitted that the
article was what to resident foreigners it seemed to be, namely -_
an accurate, but very incomplete analysis of how the leading
contenders for the 1958 presidency now stand,

ACTION TAKEN: None. Public source material and -
us personal opinion of Legal Attache.

MEXICAN MINING AND U. S. PROTECTIVE TARIFF

‘Mexico City newspapers have recently devoted much
space to reporting the proposal before the U. 8. Congress for
raising import duties on lead and zinc. Mexico's top diplomats
are making representations in Washington to kill this tax +
increase, claiming that the effect upon Mexican mining production
will be most serious, and Mexico has joined forces with Peru,
another affected country, to put the issue on even more of a
' hemisphere-wide level, ofS

From the standpoint of Mexican-U. S. relations it 1s
interesting to note the main current of thought being expressed
in newspaper editorials, namely that such a tax increase would
py demonstrate that Washington gives lip service only to the

“Good Neighbor" policy and, when concrete issues arise, the
U. S. does not seriously try to-assist the Latin american
neighbors. :

ACTION TAKEN: None. Public source material.
ATOM BOMB TESTS
The Mexican press has followed with great interest

2 Dhet



+ | + 4 DET] had been tafroduced te anend the Inmigration Act
of 10/16/18, whtch was, te deport aubverstve clicks and used the
case of Charlte Chapitr for en exemple. In reviewing ghepltn "
ease, $¢ was bro hed eext @ doable te Padle
Pte > a8 adn wrotag hin te

(49, test a
before on al Comm Sten’ dne ZB :

ee te
.. Hatupgléwatton of the Committee on the Judtetery, et Seaktngsen, < :
- duteed concernthg the nattenal eonventton of the :x>:

@r
Vete the Abrahan Lincoln Brigade witch was held on :
0/21/46, at the Fraternal Clubhouse, ATC. At whtok tine the... :.
chetrnan of the conventton read greetings from three tndtvidusie |
one of whom was Pable Picasee, 2 ere a, pai

oe pon: @nolosed wth SS :
af s” Bureau Meno, 3/20/80" -# “
A : Ree Heartngs Before Subconntst

_ Above desortbed heartage ce : _ ee

own". On Inutgratton end Naturaltzctton of th
ar oo - Cpuntttee on the Judtotery.-..  *
clas i. AL UNtbed States Banste 0 we ee
~~ E2eBESIFALI BiG. pSe 2 p. 102 .
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ABBREVIATIONS

SAFRCs ccc rccccccccccccvcccescedotnt Anti-Fascist Refugee
Comnittee

SRA of the JAFRC.evecsseccees Spanish Refugee Committee of the
Joint Antt-Fascist Refugee Committee

SRAccccceccccccsccscccscccssccspantsh Refugee Appeal

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Organizational Affiliations Cont'd: .
World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace

World Congress of Partisans of Peace

y


- MS ay
: 4

“yp

aS: + ov Ene 9/21/48 toaue of the "L'Ontte Del Eopole * contatned .-
en arttole on page 1, columns 6 and ¥, entitled “Ihe Yorid Congress ..
“idl. op Iatelleotuaie.” The arttole reveated tn part, thet tm Breslavsa,
-trtellectuaie ‘fn fortyoftve hattons expressed the ceatre of peoples

‘for peace ta which they saw progresetue developnent toward better:
tutng condittone between nations tn.
portieulers ees ei awe

Ie appeared clearly that étesentton between State ond
tndtvtdual could be eliminated, but only when Juetios for the —
tndtvtdual ce e nan and o peopie could be respected and protected,
When Pable Picasso pudltoly denounced the perseoutton of the ~~

general ahd trdivtduale

Seay PE

Chtlean poet Merudc, he dtd ne more than denounce the poltey of -- :
oppresston of thought loeking for 8ew mechs. wo hortzona of. « C2

S phunantepe Lg ey
cond i. icone eed Above tronalotton of arttole enclosed

Bureau Jetter to PH 1/11/49 -
Re: L'ontta Del Popole
700-128064=90, ps 2
Car

ars as : — ~ ines ~ . nr > o
4 fre 9/14/48 teeue of the "DF" contatned on arttoie
 entttled "Plan to Convene US Congress of Intellectuals,” which
revealed that Albert FE, Koha, who hed just returned from Wroclaw,
Poland, where he attended the Congress of Intellectuals, announced
Le esy . yesterday thet a US congress of trtellectucle would be herd Ge soon
Gd ge poaet le., Zahn potnted out, that cnong the tnuternattonally
own Stour

Padle Piece

Naeer”

who were delegates to the Congress ta Poland woe

490557515m-*0F" 9/16/48
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ve. 1/2/46, fr
te spake 6 Contrtbuter:” was Surnsened to
pertatned to the eubpoenct the J&P
to ren. besers the acta, ¥

“Spptertag on “th IP
wes © list of offteers of the organts ston, . na tag J
6s Honorary Chetrnan.

— A delecgtten m the SRA of t 192 Lestagten
“dve., 3TC.,y cane to Fashtngten, DC, on 2 si aor the pi en so
of vhetttng Congresenen regardtrg the House Cobatetes on

Anertoon Aottvtttes oubpoenatng the SATRC, eer

vA 4 bopy os warno'e ‘ptatenent, ‘on lebterhead srk
~“getttng out the purpose of the delegation lteted Padle Ptoaseo's
nane ae Honorary Chatraan of the SRA of the JAFRC,

Henna ‘ Above . described atatenent enotosed :

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STATE-
Dept:

This reference is a copy of a dispatch from US Embassy,
Paris to the State Department, dated 4/28/45, which revealed that
tt had learned that the[two important meeting places for the Spanish
Communists in Paris, France were at eS sy of Louts Aragon gnc

Pablo Picasso, French and Spanish Artist BwDb

B4e20081-1119 SoHE
¢ TM be Gq 2 9/400 Yis/ao
on

Fo! le a Se)

In December, 1944 certain plans were formulated by the
JAPRC for the Lrnauguration Day campaign which would be butlt around
the Spanish Republican refugees in France. The Committee was
planning to raise funds for the relief of Spanish Republicans
starting 3/1/45 through 5/31/¢5.
. (no source)

The National Office of Bureau of Censorship furnished
information tndicating that Pablo Picasso had accepted the
chairmanship of the campaign. Ptcasso was to serve as honorary
chairman because of his nane and connection with Spanish life.
(no date given)

Iy rpt 4/9/45
Res JAF20;

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bonds Anertoan Abra with the, cause of the Spaniah Repub lions people
.

we watt for re,

€ £/19/45 teeue ©. the " ry" the Osptotel newepaper -.
of the ma pre gel Te Les, teens wages, “eontathed en weeiete concerning.
. Bable Ploasso, who was stated to be. @ fanous Spanteh arttet end =.
menbder of the Frenoh CP, The erttole wae tn regards to hte petatiage
ond hte rebuffe to Most offtotele whittle tn. Parsee.

ye pe v/ejes

By letter dated 5/84/45 the Bureau edvteed Jew York oprtoe
esbles dated 4/17/45 end 4/25/45. etween
PS the JATRC ent Pable Ploseso en
lative % othe: ‘far reer fel tr tp tne aud ° ft
“ pelative to r ®, onntttee 8,
Spantah Pan Unfon ie 3 y #0 nd * ’ ° ¥ vr

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I 28 INVESTIGATION OF UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES AND PROPAGANDA

. und and by the two working together are able to manipulate
{ iS & activities on the part of the pteertene hetee aetieh slong tha
} Communist Party lines,
_ Chairman of the Spanish Refugee Appeal of the Joint Anti-
: Fascist Re: Committee is Dr. Edward K. Barak, whose Com-
J . munist Front affiliations are attached hereto as it 1. At one
time Dr. Bareky was chairman of the Medical Bureau and North
“4 ‘ American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy. When the internal
tht led to the dissolution of this Communist Front organization
. jorman Tho! Socialist leader, wrote in the Socialist Call of
5 June 24, 1939, as follows:
‘The tragic conflict of Loyalist forces in Madrid at the end of the heroic
, strugele emphasized the Communist control of the North American Committee.
Jt ' , The executive is Helen R. Bryan, whose Communist Front

; associations are herewith attached as bit 2, It has also been
| P

noted. Miss Bryan is treasurer of the American People’s Fund,
of which fund Frederick Vanderbilt Field is the head. The American
soglels Fund was organized by Field as » repository for funds to
! be distributed to communist enterprises. The American People’s
; Fund, for example, has paid out large sums of money to the following
{ communist and Communist Front organizations: National, Council o!
{ American-Soviet Friendship, Southern Confererice for Human Wel-
fare, Counci] for Pan-American School for Democracy
‘now known as the Jefferson School of Social Science), Allied Labor

Loe
4
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of F ‘ascist Refugee Committee, American

m Born, Joint Ar ug q
Russian ‘Institute, American Council Institute for Pacific Relations,

= Council on African Affairs, Russian War Relief, Committee for the

no Care of Young Children in Wartime, Farm Research, National Council
: of Negro Youth. This is an impressive list of Communist Front
organizations subsidized from a single fund, and it shows something

of the extent to which Helen Bryan has been involved in the com-

. munist movement, and it is well to bear in mind that she is now

i executive secretary of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee

on B ‘oint Anti-Fascist Refuses Committee. American

; and the Spanish Refugee Appeal.
' The remaining officers c of ae Spanish Refugee Appeal include Pablo
j Picasso, French artist, who recently announced his membership in the
ante Communist Party (source ~-Hushmore), honorary chairman; Dorothy
" Parker (Rothschild), acti irman; Dr. Rautenstrauch, honorary
Est chairman ; and Prof. Lyman radley, treasurer, The officers men-

tioned all have extensive affiliations with Communist Front organiza-
tions. In the list of national sponsors there are over 50 Communists
a and communist sympathizers, re ‘

“AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SPANISH FREEDOM
Investigation reveals that over 84 of these sponsors of the Spanish

Refugee Appeal of the Joint Anti-Fascists Refugee Committee are

IS also officers and sponsors of the American Committee for Spanish Free-
¢ dom, located at 55 West Forty-second Street, New York City. This
. tributions vis United States

ome.

organization has directly solicited cont tions via Unit
mails. In an undated letter Albert Einstein states that the American

Pa
¥ Committee for Spanish Freedom:

{ ews, National Negro Congress, Amerian Committee tor Protection °



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i

. "Tine," weekly news magazine, 10/30/dd tague, S$
revealed that Pablo Picasso had jotned the French CP and

* until the occupation, Picasso's politics, though pretty
vague, were rather revolutionary than Stalintet. His fornal
Party entry was obviously long planned, but delayed till the
eve of the opentng of the Salon.d'Automne tn order to make
the maztmum ‘eclat.

The CP had a tremendous pull which combined the
enormous prestige of Red Army victories with a safe non-
revoluntary liberal social program, and Picasso was only
Sollowtng a mass trend.

On Sunday at the Autumn Salon a thousand gaping.
people passed through and tn the latter part of the after-
noon numerous young men began removing Picasso 's paintings
and demanding thetr money back.

A group of unidentified students appeared at the
newapaper office, "L'Auroie" and stated that they were not
collaborators or Nazis, as the Picassophile had quickly
suggested, but resisters of mystification. The motive for
renoving the paintings from the walls of the gallery seemed
to be resentment at the puffing up of Picasso, and against
his new slipshod, contempterous style.

"Tine" 10/30/44
94-3-4521-491, p. 28
@QY“y)

” The fornation of a new society tn France called
"France-URSS," was created in the latter part of September,
1944, In November, 1944, three lists of members of the
"Initiating Committee” were published, containing names of

prominent CP leaders, one being Pablo Picasso.

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—~

7 oo SEMGET:

Ptoaseo expreesed thanks for nedtoal end reltef auppltes
which hed been nade vatladle by the JAFRO 40 spanged Republtoane

“on shvses, an ah attended 8 JAFRC necting held Ce
Nadteon Square Garden tn FYC. Deoorattons at the Garden troluded ~
_lorge bankere beartng the followtage seeeR Fesoten Now. Xt11 the
Mundt Btl1, Ltft the Eubarge on Arne te Palestine o Spatn, all:
Atd to Spantah Republican Frtles, Step the Thense<Dtes Comntttes.”
4 message from the Trench orttet Pablo Ptoasee, wae needs

okie ot dew ae an fae a s/ie/es i : ~

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109-061-1604, p 2
rf y200=7061-2618, p. 16

ot Jersaeae ? pe 99.
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The 9/23/45 Seeue. of the tl contatned ‘an sritele Sn.
“seotton 3, ree , column 1, entitled, "The drttet eons Fer
@ Free written by we. Tebers In the erttole, Tede
ettacke one condition of ert tn Spatn end eteted +! ot wherever

Fasoten goes, there te Becsdonce end death ts every tafellectual
medion. Ww? ORF ALA

. In the sane arttete, Veber pratsed the  Bpenter pateser,.
te Proasse, whe had taken ip the otveggte eoatnes Fasotet end
faxt antnale. : ;

aw
wen

Pan nyt a3. tT) 2

. }. Maat | oy LD)

: vane ” i ee tee ee
‘4 Newepaper eltpptag fron "the Yorke er," dated es/es
carrted a acre ef Jacques 1 fro General Secretary of HA ,
Marcel Cac Comnuntet edttor of L'tumantte, end Pebdle Pioaese,
———...... . fanous Spanteh Patnter, The scene was in the office of L'Runantte ——
witch Ploaeso had vtetted @ few montha 90 te efftetally Becene
@ mender of the Frenoe CP,

Cy oN PO aaa
On a fee. 23099 —k "the Forker® 1 )
a So Nt io Mey

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. t : Pr
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- fhe 10/19/45 teoue of the "L'iunentte, "on oe J, garrted,

the @ ouncenent of Fernand Leger's edhenton $0 the Bee,
Phe ttem tadfeated that Leper. h

- . ; 2 on th vteua day telegra
fron New York hte acheston tH) the cp of France "Shua’ fot $85 $1
Ploasse and other saprotent patnterg end tatelleotuals Trence

tn. the movement to. eo te os

Wr coe ae BO

. - _ & epeeck by Dr. Suen Martnello (Vidaurreta), Preetdent of -
' the CP of Cuba, whtch wae del{vered over Radio Station Mi) Diew on
10/24/45, ooneerntng the trtumph ebtatned by the CP of France tn the”

eleottons of that country, was publtehed tn "HoyTM on 10/87/45-

wy te

. In part Wartnello etated that the greatest and one of the
——- ~~ Rost recently famous patnteres of eur ers, was Pable Ptoasec, who was
4 1 One Of the prect end fanouse proletartet-leadera of the French OP,

oN Rave 8
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-
7 The 5/14/49 teaue of the “Fashtagten TtuseHerald” contatned
“ep erttole entt pled "cate Demands Deportation of Charite Chaplia” ° ~
which revecied that Senator Cats denanded that Sorses acter Charlée -:
-Qhaplin de deported end accused Atm of ooutag “perticusly elose
‘to treason". ogotnet the U5, vs se

“I” @atm aatd Chaplte sent Pablo Ptoaseo of France a "treaeonad]

néssage @ yeor ago cektng Picasso to protest to the dmertoan Subassy

$e Parte the outrageous deportation proceedtage egatnet Hanns Meler .
a e leo che : : es wee ge eles wpe RO

¢ PLoasso 8 “eelfaadntited Frexoh Comnuntete” ay
701 , Atagton ThneeHerald

The 18/10/47 tasue of the Datiy Jews” carrted ax
article to the effect the Comnuntet newepaper "L'Humantte” of
Parts, France carried a letter tn the 12/9/47 taaue whtoh tt satd
was from Charlee Chaplin to Pablo Ptoaseo, Spanish modernist
painter, eaktng Ploeseso to protest the proposal to expel Hane

, . Stealer from the BW. |” CO gee 2 Rg oe
ag yt . pa ws

Pa ‘ Lt NS aro, a

“Cate calle

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fo Cable and Radio Censorshtp advisec that
+ on 3/13/45 aldorf-dateria Hotel, NY¥G,sent acable. .
to Pablo Ptcasso, e-Saugustins, Paris, France. e eable quoted

- as prortowe: * F arrived well in New York. I hope edition till

ll It willbe ‘Parte’ tn three weeks. Take ware of
ealth. Affecttonate greetings from your editor
. advise e US “Pease of Cable and Radtb Censorship that

was a friend of Ptcasso' ve Tivtng tn YC and a commentator on

radio. 2 east
bav _
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alias: ~
Is-¢, F, ‘
100-327823422, p. 6 .
02) os
wh

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(12), tdenttal Source
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we

This meference ts atopy cf a letter from the American
Embassy, Celo, Norway, +0 the State Dep*. cated 1/12/¢°, enclosing
a monorancun entitled "Size and Streng of the orwecian CP,"
fate? 1/9/: classifie? "Conficential” which was preparec by the
Pirss Seerdtary Villian Atlshie. The menorancun revealer in

part, thet the Intellectual and Liberal Circles was another tract

ttonal potne of application of Communist influence. In Morwav,
fommunism Ctc not appear to have been so sucessful with this
group as tn other countries. It was thought that t+ was partly

cue to the lack of big names 1% the worle of art such as 2ivera,

Paul Robeson, Picasso ang oteens nd partly to the character

of the Norwegian peor ll BE - pe DAS polly
a >" * Fb,

br b+ Fal <3 1509 G2 Boo BY 12/30f¢7
(20)eg"

The "nr" of S/*/2°, container an article en:
s US Pigh? | pesctsn, Greets Pally For Spanish 2eoubiicars at
Gercen Yay 17. This article state? that Parlo Piersso, worlc

famous painter, vestercay urge” the American people "49° rise up

an? snash a croming fascism hetore it mas too late." Ina cable

from Prance to Dr, ECware £&. Barstu, Chairman of the JAFRC, Picasso
sent greetines to the "Prase the Infany't rally which was to te 2cl2
Paw i, tohs 20°, or vou wt have an American
Guarcia (The ' Garcia Ginil"” as the nilicery police
force of the *ranco regime.)

itle7, "Ficasso

In an obvtous references *o the lunct "Subversive Aotivities
Zonsrol Bill,” pending in Jongress, Picasso declarer that "Spanish
Republicans tn France, the firs: *iohters agains’ fascism, empress
their solivarit with you tn stragle agains Fascist lectslation
to repress pregtesetve elements in the US."

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face of Communism’s consistently hostile attitude toward Christianity, .
UN.LCE.F. shows where its allegiance lies by constantly choosing artists
who have collaborated with Communist causes to design its Christmas cards. ~
Pal icasso, perhaps the best known of all the artists chosen by
F., designed a card for them in 1961. The follov following year he
received the Lenin Peace Prize from a spiritually sensitive sou! in Moscow
z, famed Nikita Khrushchev. Did you know that Picasso has belonged to the
French Communist Party since 1944? And that the December 1966 issue of
\ the Marxist magazine New World Review praises him as a “lifetong
Communist”? Forces

Consider also some of Picasso's stable mates. i, artist. ‘of two
UN.LCE-FP. cards in 1957, was refused admission to the United States in
1950 because of his Communist activities. BenShahn, artist of a 195

- UNL '. card, has vt Feo with at least twenty-one Communist —
Front organizations. AntoniétFrasconi, artist of another 1958 U.N.LC.E.PY7!
card, was a signer of tists Front to Win the War, an officially cited _
Communist Front. Doris(Lee, a 1959 and 1960 U.N.LC.E.F. card artist, hi
been affiliated with four officially cited Communist Fronts. She also signed 9
statement requesting U.S. aid for the Soviet Union and for Red China. }]/ le

. Arggle“Blanch, artist of 1962 and 1963 U.N.LC.E.F. cards, has been
connected with at least four officially cited Communist Front organizations.
He has also regularly contributed cartoons and illustrations to Communist
publications. KareNQvolinsky, agtist of a 1963 U.N.LC.E.F. card, is a Czech
Communist. In 1966, LojoeVincze, a writer_and artist from Communist
‘Hungary, did art work for some ‘Of the cards; while the biggest and most
expensive card in the 1966 line was a painting by a French artist named Jean
Lurcat — described by the House Committee on Un-American Activities as
‘reportedly a member of the French Communist Party and an active member
in numerous Communist Front organizations.” Small wonder that Florence
Fowler Lyons wrote in her column for September 11, 1966: “The
Communist Party bookshop in Los Angeles has just informed me that ‘soon’
they will receive their annual supply of UNICEF greeting cards.”

The Communist permeation of U.N.LC.E.F. also explains the many
strange ways this “charitable” organization spends its money. The newsletter
of the McGraw-Edison Company’ 's Committee For Public Affairs of Decem-
ber 1961 pointed out:
Emergency Fund ... appropriated $59 million between 1947 and 1958 to
Communist countries. In @ ratio not unlike that of other UN ventures, the
United States has furnished approximately $42 million of the money. Also, as
with any ‘aid’ program, the assistance does not go to the needy but is
administered through governments.” And as any student of the Communist
Conspiracy can tell you, food and medicine are used as political weapons to
keep enslaved peoples under subjection. Witness the systematic, intentional

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Dept. Cater €/18/48&, The report statec in part, *ha* the JAF2C's SRA
" urged through letters cireulater in the Philadelphia area,
we? cooperation and support of Spanish Repubdlians in Spain and France

in appreciation of their struggle for the defeat of Fascign One o
the listed officers was Pablo Picasso, Honorary chat rman fll

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taverns where some self-denying host provided unsurpassable
food for almost no money." Hts companions were then, and
always continued to be, literary, because, as Gertrude Stein
said: "Why have patnters for friends when he could paint
as he could paint?” At thts time he was patnting, wrote
Barr, "studies of beggars as Spanish tn their intense realian
as a Zurbaran or early Velazquer," and pictures not far
removed from Renoir's late style. His art at that point was
comparatively "academte and conventional.” Throughout this
period Picasso was filling notebools with the sketches 7”?
caricatures and portrait studies that he was continually
making.

In 1900, when Picasso was almost nineteen years at
old, he went to Paris. There he began to paint cabaret and
street scenes, influenced by such patnters as Steinlen and
Toulouse-Lautrecs He eold a picture, according to R.#.

Wilenski, to "a new Montmartre dealer, Mme. Weill, who was
about to help and encourage creative talents." In the winter
of 1901 he returned to Madrid, "where besices painting he
published several tissues of a magazine Arte Joven (Young
Art)." By spring, however, he was back again in Paris, and
he took up permanent residence there.

"Picasso came to Paris," said the New Republic,

"a badly educated young painter, but infinitely clever and
factle.” There he studied the works of the moderns--Vuillard,
Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrecs Denis, and Gauguin--and of the
older men--Degas, Renoir, and the Impressionists--and he made
friends of the poets Max Jacob, Andre Salmon, and Guillaume
Appollinaire. In June of 1901 Picasso exhibited a group of
canvases at Vollard's. "During much of 1901 he painted
lustily wtth a rich palette and impressionist brushwork,
suddenly but characteristically reversing his style in a
series of flat, decorative figure pteces," such as the famous
Harlequin and Matches.

Picasso went back again to Spain in 1902, and the
result of that return was the painting known as hts Blue Period.
"The sadness of Spain," wrote Gertrude Stein, "and the monotony
of the Spanish coloring, after the time spent in Parts, struck
him forcibly upon his return there..eThe French tnfluence which
had made his first or Toulouse-Lautrec Period was over and he
had returned to his real character, his Spanish character.”
The pervasive blue tone in Picasso's paintings was interpreted
by Barr as "in harmony with the murky and sometimes heavy-
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again for over twenty years.” In 1905 also, Picagso made

a series of some sixteen dry paints and etchings which

"in thetr sensitive lyrictsm epitomize his work of that year."
Picasso's vistt to Holland tn 1905 marked a further advance
toward a more objective mood in his art and toward "forms of
great wet ght and monumentaltty.” In 1906 he reacted vtolently
from his "Blue and Pink" pictures, which he later referred to
as all sentiment, and he now "sought an attitude nearer to
Gauguin's description of primttive art, an attitude tn which
Sensuous expertence and sentiment would retire to the rank

of servants and not dominate the artist in his creation of form."

With his discovery of African Negro sculpture,
Picasso changed the "direction of his art and in so doting
helped change to a remarkable extent the character of modern
art as a whole. Cubtam, the name subsequently given to this
new direction (by Matisse) was not Picasso's singlehanded
invention." The masterpiece of Picasso's Negro Pertod ts the ,?!
Demoiselles d'Avignon (1906-7) which, wrote Barr, "may be
called the first Cubist picture, for the breaking up of natural
forms, whether figures, still life, or drapery, tnto a semi-
abstract allover pattern of tilting, shifting planes ts already
Cubisn,

With a "series of greenish paintings," begun early
in 1909 when he returned from another trip to Spain, "Piccsso
continued his progress toward a more developed and abstract
forn of Cubism, a progress which had been interrupted by the
simplified brown paintings at the end of the Negro Period.

"A term often applied to Picasso's work from 1900 to 1913 is
"analytical Cubism"--Cubism which "analyzes, breaks up, takes
apart natural forms.” From 1911 on Picasso experimented with
three Cubistic innovations: "The introduction of letters, of
pasted paper (papier colle), and of trompe l'oet1 imitation
tertures." During 1915 Picasso began to return to realisn

tin a series of portrait drawings, although he continued to
work simultaneously at Cubism.

As a Spantard, Picasso was not called upon for
service tn the First World War. He was in Provence when the
War began. Soon afterward he returned to Paris and worked
there through the greater part of 1915 and 1916. Gertrude
Stein said that she remembered at the beginning of the War
being with Picasso one evening on the Boulevard Raspatl when
the first camouflaged truck passed. They had heard of
camouflage, but they had not yet seen it. Picasso, amazed,
looked at it and then cried out: "Yes, it ts we who made it~-

that is Cubisn!"
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the U.S.A. in June, 1969:

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We feel that you are deeply a aware of the needs of children all over the
world, and of the worth of UNICEF. It and other fine UN organizations
contribute to the international understanding and hope for a better world.

CORRECTION: Providing for the welfare of children in need is without
question a most worthy project — but not when such efforts are used as
facade by the International Communist Conspiracy. And, as one would
expect from any agency connected with the United Nations, U.N.I.C.E.F. has
had more than its share of Communists on the payroll. The first chairman of
the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund was_Ludwig

_———Rjachmann, a Communist from Soviet-controlled Poland. When he was
subpoenaed in 1957 by the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions

country rather than appear before the Committee.

In 1952 the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee published a 434-page
document entitled Activities Of United States Citizens Employed By The
United Nations, in which it revealed that: “startling evidence has disclosed
infiltration into the UN of an overwhelmingly large group of disloyal U.S.
citizens, many of whom are closely associated with the international

_ Communist movement .... Their positions at the time we subpoenaed them
were ones of trust and responsibility in the UN Secretariat and in its
specialized agencies.” One such subversive was a woman named Ruth

* \Grawtord, a publications officer for U.N.ILCE.F. She declared under oath
that she had been a member of thé Communist Party and was still in
sympathy with it. There was also Joy: bell, who admitted that she had
been employed by the American Committee for Yugoslav Relief, an officially
cited Communist Front organization, and that her position with that Front
was the reference that obtained for her a job with UN.LC-EF.!

In 1909 Lenin emphatically stated that “Marxism is materialism ... it
is... relentlessly hostile to religion.” And in 1957 Nikita Khrushchev said:

- “We consider that belief in God contradicts our Communist outlook.” In the

ENCLOSURE

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ates 6/25/51, enclosing a copy of a report from G-2, datec
Habe gf/er/25, classifiec "Secret, " titled "Crganization of the
ese Drench CPeLiaiscon with IMoscob.

Stine 4). This report set forth a table shoving plans for two of
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errantzations which were, "The Public Political Organization" and
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AP the Communists whom the Party used to infz te, into various
bit intellectual circles was painter Picasso el) <f |
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November 13, 1969

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D. C, 20000

Dear Mr. Hoover,

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Sincerely Yours,

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I am sending you the encléged leaflet handed to one of our
church's young people during (ICEF Trick or Treat Drive in our
city recently, This leafiet has been very upsetting to our
young people and their councilors who did this service in good

Being unable to refute these claims, I am sending the leaflet
to you for youn judgement so I might know how properly to answer
these charges. I feel an answer is due them on behalf of the
church and our nation. I can think of no other person who is better
qualified than yourself being a churchman and an official in our

Enclosure: "The Truth About UNICEF" b> vu os

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr. Bi
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Mr. Callahan ———
Mr. Conrad ————
Mr. Felt
Mr. Gale
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Sullivan ———
Mr. Tavel
Mr. Soyars
Tele. Room
Miss Holmes
Mies Gandy

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sued to asseet th elertfytng the wrk.of the Unttarten Servieg
Committee on page 518 contetned an ertiote under date of 10/27/46 >
“getting forth @ report delivered by Rev. Howard L. Brooke, aottnag’ 5
Frecuttve Director of the Unttartan Service Countttes, eo port $e"
-menttoned the Ontterten Service Countttes had 6 baste Sgreenent
with JAFRO, one of whitch was, the Unttertan Service Conuntttee
agreed te conault reguierly with the Spanteh Advisory Connttsee
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Picasso, Pablo Ruiz, painters b. 18813 ed. itn
Barcelona. Founder and leader cubtet sch.j destgner for
Diaghilev Ballet, 1917-273 dir. Prado Gallery, Madrid stnce
1936. Works tnolude: (murale) Spanish Pavilton, Parts Ezhbdn.s
19373 (paintings) Lea Arlequins, L'Aveugl fantl
Femme a la mandoltne, Guernica; (portratts) Stravinsky, J.
Couteauy G. Appollinatre, Maz Jacobs; (ettll-life) in Parts,
Berlin, London, Philadelphia (USA) gallertes; (decorattons
for Russtan ballets) Parade, 1917, Tricorne, 1918, Pulctnella,
1919, Rectptent Pennell Memorial Medal for achievement tn
graphic arts, Pa. Acad. Fine Arts, 1949. Published book of
engravings, The Dream and Lte of Gen. Franco 1937. Address:
23 rue la Boetie, Parts VIII, France.

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wan harlots with femme fatale masks, and blind beggars."
Picasso himself explatned the Blue Pertod by the fact that
Prussian blue was the cheapest color to be had. He was

tndeed ly poor at this time. Although Mme. Weill
had exh

fifteen of hts 1901 paintings during his
absence, the exhibition seemed to have fallen flat. "when
he returned in the autumn he was 80 short of money thats,
unable to afford a studto, he shared a room with Mar Jacob
of the Hotel Voltaire, sleeping by day when Jacob was out
and painting by night when Jacob was asleep.” Picasso's
nost important work of the Blue Period ts La Vie (Couple Nu
et Femme avec Enfant) of 1903, "in which he endows a salon
‘problem’ subject with serious statuexyque dignity.”

Early in 1904 the Blue Period came to an ends “but
for a while," commented Barr, "the rhetoric, the attenuated hands,
and mannered poses of 1903 grew even more exzaggerated..Then at
gradually these mannerisms gave way to the more natural style
and melancholy sweetness of the long series of saltimbanques,
acrobats, and harlequins...Color, too, wispersed the blue gloom
of 1903, but it was for the most part subdued and subtle, in
harmony with a new delicacy both of drawing and of sentiment.”
He painted the saltimbanque pictures, without models, in his
studio at night--for during this pertod Picasso continued to
Sleep most of the day and work by night. In 1905 Picasso
passed some weeks at Gosol in the Andorra Valley of the Spanish
Pyrenees. "During this time he left behind him the nostalgic
introspective mood and the emaciated forms of the harlequins
of the previous year," and began to paint pictures of a "chalky
terra cotta pink tonality which seem to be tnspired by Greek
art." The tenderness, sensitivity, and charm of the saltimbanque

and the succeeding neo-classic Rose Pertod are "very probably
and the succeeding neo-classic Rose Pertod are “very probably

a reflection of Picasso's own tmproved circumstances, for

curing 1905 he began to have a moderate success...and discerning
collectors such as the Americans, Leo and Gertrude Steins, and
the Russian Shchukine began to byhis work.”

Picasso painted Gertrude Stein's portrait during
1905. In the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Miss Toklas
is supposed to murmured to Picasso that she liked his portrait
of Gertrude Stein. "Yes," he said, "everybody says that she
does not look like it, but that does not make any difference--
she will." -

Ambrose Vollard cast a series of bronzes modeled by
Picasso in 1905. "Except for a few tsolated, though important,
experiments, Picasso was not to take up sculpture seriously

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