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74-00000 “For: SAIXT, washington. - wH/ bed ane ii fat Prom: AH/Gul “Subject: Leon Pnitlip DELLEWWRG Tor 2. oe erent - s a le - ~ 1. Subject arrived in Turzey on 8 Juny 19, and ‘is staying at ‘the Fark Hotel.. . SO, —_ es Subject jaa Neivate Aserican eitizen representing ‘the ® rrational Fescue and: telief Committee” which, we understand, fs engazed in "rescuing" ‘{nléllectuals fren Muropee.) ae 3. - Jt hag been reported reliably that subject has engared in : v* discussions of his “work”, and his reiationsiips with certain Turks ° who are not in tne government, in aA loud tone of. voice .in the Fark 0 lls. Hotel within earshot of Cerman residents. 3ubdeet ‘stated that. every-— : . cne krew that the present Turkish Ceverrinent (#A35, ‘bad and that the good elements were just waltinr to fom their in rovernmert. be In view of ‘the fact that such initseret fons are dazaying. to Americans and American polley in Turres, recest that you inves- . ‘ tirate baékrround of tals man tard dnform us. | ‘Should. further indts- . a eretions core to cur attention, we will rere tes and request that a you take the matter up clreetly with sown cree nat ion ooo owith mn | the State Cenpartnent. . . oe e : . Cistribubion: A057). s
2 International Reseus and Relaf Committee 4 scanpenated 103 PARK AVENUE. LEniagton Honorary Chairman Charles A. Beard Chelemse Frank Kingdon Vice-Chairman | * Freda Kirchwey *' Sterling 0. Spore Ingrid Warburg L. Hollingsworth Waod ' Mr. Esrl- Brennan ‘Main P.C. Box 1929 Vashington 13 r’ D.C. Treasurer : David F, Seiferheld — Executive Secretary Shoba Strunsky Dear Lire Brennan: ‘National Committos Roger Baldwin Paul F, Brissendes Stuart. Charo George §. Counts Frank Crowninshiald Margaret De Silver John Dawey Lewis Gannett Harry Gideonte Jamos G. Heller ‘John Hoynes Holmes ‘William H. Kilpatrick Wasiley C. Mitchell Reinhold Nisbuhe William Alfan Newson dohe Des Passos Cacitia Rasovaly Abbe Hillel Sitver Upton Sincloie Dorothy Thomptoa Owald G. Villard to the messaze we a t Italy for us some literty to enclose for your kind coope $s/ir Enc. NEW YORK 17, WL Y 2-716 enuary 30, 1945 Since we received no reply sked you to transmit to ime ago, I have taken the another message which I ask you to transuwit for us if possible. ®hanking you in advance ration, I am, Very sincerely yours, Kobe. 2 Sheba strunsky Dxecutive Secretary pe® aft... to he ; et : ~ oom + bea ‘Beh s y Steg taper 8 aoe oe Registered with President's War Relat Contrat Board Member Agency of the National Wer Fund through affiliation with Rofugoe Relief Trustees
14-00000 Hones ary Chairmen - Chorles A. Boord Chelrmea ” Frenk Kiagdes Vieo-Chalrmen “Freda Kicchwey Sterling D. Spero ingrid Werburg L. Hollingiworth Wood Treasurer David F. Seiferheld ‘Gaecutive Secratary Sheba Strunshy National Committes Roger Baldwin Poul F. Brissenden Stuer? Chase George $. Counts Frank Crowniashiold Margaret Oe Silver John Dewey Lawit Gannett Harry Gideonse dames G. Heller doha Haynes Holmes William H, Kilpatrick Weasley C. Mitchell Reinhold Niebuhe William Allan Neilsen John Dos Passos Cacilie Rezovely Abbe Hillel Silver” Upton Sinclale- Dorothy Thempsan. Oweld G. Villard Fal ae i Spore a wee? Lf eis £ \ al ae a wt Internalional Rascue and Ralef Committeo Snconporated fe 103 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK 17, N.Y. tExington 2-7916 Novexber 27, 1944 Myre Dor] Erennan “ashingten 12, D.%. Decr Vre Brennans HE BF ~ te oT ve whan “eu Kindly trancuit the anolosed messuce to lire. Vonturnn. of rors ir LriGe pete eel Registered with President's War Relief Central Board Member Agency of the National War Fund through affiliation with Refuges Reliel Trustoas
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14-00000 a ®Intermaitional Nosows and Re lief Comm ttee® Italian Branoh ‘© Remo » via Aurora 3h - Lire FRUK KERCDOL, Lirse SISA STAUIGKY | wo have rocaiyed tie sua of $10,000 on Ly Jomary 1S. It 1o a month ard tro wooks, therefore, that our office: 49 oparatincs Be havo not boon ablo to confim the roool vt cf said own by railogres because of the diffieuities encountered at presont in Italy in anking uso of such neand of edammnicat lone ; Wo have carriod out your inatructions rolativo to tho names you sont ue by radlogras: in Jamiary and FObrUnry « Sinon pachauer wos not, found at the address civene oe aro avalting further clarification on the matters | fha clothes wich you aontionod in your flrot radiogran have not reached us as yote Fleave inform ua as to tho aate they were chipped. _ ke hope to sem) you a veport on our aotivities by the ° ard ef thie roiuthe In the future, instead of sanding morey or inatructions to Via aurora 43 you should adress liresctly to our offices at Via Aurora le Sfife Hattoottl Raw, I sarch 1985 wate tite creme
" hoy Urs. Sheba Strunaly - Executive Secretary. - Intemational. Rescue and ‘Rolief f Connfttae 103 Park Avenue New York, Yow York Wty doar Mrs. Strunaiys . I have just received fron ry Citef Doguty din Italy the attached commiication addressed to the Interna~ tional Rescue and Relief Cow ttea whicl, I an inforned by my Deputy, is tron Matioo Vattootti., I presume this can munication is in reply te one which ve forwarded on your behalf? a number of wocks agos Vory sincerely yours, : Bil Roel Earl Brennan Attachment: Lettor, as described above
14-00000 ats aa May wt Loa ey bt nyt Wes 1) low Beginners. ; ORC ONE Cod ior Be ; 4: The Gernan Social Denoc rad tad TaeTr-yamtpupt for years before Hitler's accession to power, ills appointaent to the chancellore ey ship of the Heich by the senile rresident von iNindenburg was simply the official recognition of a fact generally known for sone tine, Two nain reasons broucht about the breakdown of the Social | (.Deaoeratic Party. First, the spiritual and tactical woaxness / “of the once proud militant party of August bebel and. WLlnela / Lhebynecht. Secondly, the troachorous tactics of. tho Moscow \ / direoted Co:mmmist Party which, through its flirtation and I getive cooperation with the National Sootalist Party; oxpected . to fall heir to whatever would be loft of the Soctal Domocracy. ‘ It 4a history now that iitler harvested the fruit of Moscow's va banque policy. . In the fall of 1935 a panphlet "New Beginning = Fascism : V3" ox Socialisn” waa published in Narlsbac, Czechoslovakia, its author isles" condemned the dorman Social Venocratic Party &, and particularly its leadership sevorely, deaanding a anarp. t — “turn to the Left if Socialism should survive this crisis, ; | | several months before Hitler's coning to power certain Leftiste th tenin the Social verocratie Party had met secrotly in Serlin, organic ing a group which was to cain reoruits in the more important efties and indus trfal ad istricts. for a Left Ving of the Social Venocratic Party. ‘It was the intention of those New Seginners, as they called theasolvos,. to work ithin the franewors of the old party, trying to force a more
2) Now Uo.cln ora. } radical polley on tho SeDePo — oo, | 726 Manifesto of the Now ‘Boginners groug contained, ‘what Lt callod tho central thought of the sevenont, Wwe find it reproduced in tho Miles panphlet: _ \ "Marxism alone ta the key to tho Soctallat transformation of tho world,” it road, "The Socialism that is to come wilt be _nothing. if not MarxiatessIt fa not the Marzlam of the Socialist parties that has failed; it is rather the Soclalist parties that have failed because they have not been Marxist enough. The more ° firaly the Socialist parties base thelr theory and practice en ‘Harxtem,. the more onally, the more rapidly and tho nore certainly wlll they accomplish the great taska which hiatery has laid on then, ," | Elghtoon months before the organization of the New Beginners, | another Sorial Democratic secession had taken place « the Sozlalistische Arbolter-rartel (Soclallst Labor Party). Thia party placed ths 83:26 emphasis on Warxiem as being the life blood of Socialist practico, But the S.1., nad fatled miserably. Uarxism cid not save tho hew Beginning groups either, They both reaained aneaic plants, unadle to live and still loss able to dis,” "Joa" , the author of the firat New Beginnora pamphlet, ; Veet Wart. FI was Dre, Karl franic who had sorved as ii eutenant in an Austrian Be artillery regiment during the world Wars From the aray he went straight to Munich, particizated in the Bavarian Soviet governnent and from thore to Serlin, where he joined the Spartacus Sund and a fer months later became a charter member
3) How Resinnorge ... | Dy of the Conmmualst varty ‘of Gormany lore no advanced: quiasly. Tao! Goraan Co:aunist. Party. had fow intellectuals in ite ranks and -Franit, who had beon writing in ‘the | “tener "arboiterstel tung" bofore he. Jotzied’ the arny vecae ‘almost imaeciately: “a monber of tho staff of. ‘the "Rote “Bana . “the official party organ, In 1024 he was appointed’ 7 “editor of the "Note : “ahne" and woo rogarded ag the: confidential = mah: of the Conintern, the’ executive body of the: Coneauntet. International. Ho remained: with! the ‘Communist Party until the boginning of 1932, left. it to Join the (Right. wing) Brandier-Th Walhnolner Communist opposition Eroup, and went: I from there into the Soetal Deraoeratic Party, where he waa re- ‘ sponsible for the organization of the New Beginners croups. Poople who are faniltar with the, innor workings of the Comintern and wao have ‘moun Prank since 1919 inaist that he alwaya haa. : "been omployod by the Communist International, that he was also ss ‘Oe Pele man. They also insist that. ho is still in the esploy '. of the inner circle of the Communist International, ~ I not hin flret in Vienna in Cctover 1935, when he caltod up at my hotel end expressed tho wish to discuss: important party nattersa with ne, Ile cane: to me undor the nane of a, Huollors and we discussed tno organizational possibilities “of the "lew Beginning” » we proaised to send noe material to Hew Yor which some tins ‘later enabled no to write: an article | 1 on the néw mover sant for the New Republic, which was. published . there in July, 1934. | “Later I met hin on and off in New Yorx on his trips to Rit te Re LETS a - eet SEO %, oe a ia