Evening star., 1934-03-27
SHOWDOWN NEARS
IN REVOLT CHARGE
Writ Certain to Get Chance
to Name "Brain Truster"
informant.
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culture; A. A. Berle, jr., New York
City chamberlain: James A. Lands
of the Federal Trade Commission;
Charles Taussig, president of the
American Molasses Co., and Mordecai
Ezekial, economic advisor to Secretary
Wallace.
Two Cornell professors, George F.
Warren, the Presidents chief cur
| rency adviser. and William l. Myers
of the Farm Credit Administration
both said they had not given informa-
ton to Writ.
Taussig said he never even heard
Of Writ"
Tempest in Teapot"
II, for one, don't know what this
tempest in a teapot is all about" he
said. II don't believe anybody else
does either, unless it's Writ or James
H Rand, jr., of the Committee for the
Nation.
Rand has been deluging me with
releases and one thing and another
about Wirt's so-called exposure, but
as far as the old brain trust is con-
cerned, there's nothing to expose.
Writ. even now, is just name to
me along with Lenin, Stain, Musso-
lini and hundred others. Frankly,
it looks like just another ballyhoo
about mysterious and non-existent
revolution"
Ezekiel wirelessed to the Associated
Press:
do not recall talking with DR.. Writ.
I have never advocated or predicted
either dictatorship or communism for
America Instead I believe in liberal
democracy"
Almost unanimously the brain
trusterS' said they considered the
charge laughable. Some agreed with
TauSsig when he said he believed
somebody pulled the good school
teachers leg and is getting a big
laugh out of all this"
Tugwel. quoted by the World
Telegram, said.
II was greatly surprised. not to say
amused. I had never heard Of DR.
Writ before"
Berle Sees Spoofing.
Berle, who was in Albany, N. Y,
yesterday. said:
spoofing the good doctor. The original
brain trust was only President Roose-
velt's Campaign Research Committee
| and it was liquidated on the night oi
March 3, 1888"
Commissioner Lands was quoted BY
the World Telegram as branding Writ
as familiar type in Washington
one of those people always running
around pinning the Communist Label
| on any one who seems more ad-
vanced."
Among assertions in DR.. Wirt's let
ter were that an unnamed brain
truster" told him months ago that Mr.
Roosevelt was only the "Kerensky" of
the revolution then being planned:
that he would be supplanted by a
"Stalin," and that some presidential
advisers were seeking to hamper busi-
ness recovery to bring about this end.
The Indiana educator has since
been quoted as saying he would dis
close the name of his informant when
the welfare pf the country demanded.
Rainey Demands Name.
Speaker Rainey. speaking along this
line yesterday in urging a Justice De-
partment investigation, said:
If there are men, little or big, con-
nected with the recovery movement
who have made the statements he al
leges, whether they were joking or Sc
rious, DR.. Writ should give their
names.
His refusal to do it brands him as
mere publicity seeker, determined to
sabotage the recovery program of the
administration as much as possible. "
Representative Bulwinkle, Demo-
crat, of North Carolina said he would
seek to gain unanimous consent in the
House this Afternoon to bring up for
immediate action his resolution to in
vestigate the truth or falsity' Of the
charges.
There was still another possibility
for a congressional investigation.
CHAIRMAN D1ckSte1n OF the Special
Committee authorized last week to
investigate alleged Nazi propaganda
in this country, told news men his
group had authority to inquire into
"subversive" activities against the
Government, such as those chaig
by DR.. Writ.
Schan Sees Treason.
On the Senate side, Senator Schall,
Republican, Of Minnesota, came for
ward with a suggestion that If any
one close to the President were found
guilty of efforts to substitute COM
munism," he should be placed be-
fore a firing squad
If the charges made by DR.. w. A.
Writ that conspiracy exists among
the professors surrounding President
Roosevelt to destroy our Government
and substitute communism can be
proven, this Is treason" Schall said.
Men who commit such crimes are
placed before a firing squad. This
may be an ancient custom, but if
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