Evening star., 1940-01-03
Government Agencies
Urged 10 Unite
Against Attacks
Committee Contends
Bund and Other Groups
Lose Prestige, However
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Lose Prestige, However
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public about two months ago the
membership and mailing list" Of the
Washington branch of the American
League for Peace and Democracy
which contained 463 names and
which President Roosevelt de-
scribed as "sordid procedure" F"
But 1t did declare 1t had evidence
to show the league is Communist
"front" organization and added:
According to one of the recent
minutes of the Washington Cd. c.
branch of the American League it
was decided to set up league COM
mittees in the units of Government
agencies with our present men,
bership in those agencies as nu-
cleus.' These nuclei of the league
are now formed in more than a
score of Government agencies. H.
c. Lamberton, chairman of the
Washington branch of the league,
testified under oath before the
committee that there are 700 Gov
ernment employees who are members
of the American League for Peace
and Democracy"
The report described the Com
munist party las a foreign con-
spiracy masked as political
party" and said in practice it is
actually functioning as a border
patrol on American shores" 1t
noted, with apparent satisfaction,
that the German-American Bund,
the Silver Shirts and the Com
munist party are losing member
ship and prestige"
Mentions Other Fronts"
In addition to the American
League for Peace and Democracy
the report branded as Communist
fronts the International Workers
Order, American Student Union,
Friends of the Soviet Union. Ma
tional Negro Congress, Southern
Negro Youth Congress, League of
American Writers, Workers ALI
ance, Spanish Refugee Relief Cam
paign, North American Committee
to Aid Spanish Democracy and
Friends of the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade.
No recommendation is made in
the report for continuance of the
committee although Chairman Dies
has a resolution pending in the
House to give it another lease on
life for at least a year. Four rea-
sons were suggested, however, why
the committee should be continued,
including one which said that with
these un-American groups IN a
state of confusion as result of the
disclosures by this committee, the
events abroad and recent prosecu-
tions by various Government agen-
cies it becomes doubly important
that such an inquiry be continued
to make certain that the confusion
is turned into complete rout"
The committee. which disclosed
about week ago it had the names
of about 20 Hollywood movie stars
and scenario writer's who had aided
the Communist party, declared in
the report that two months would
be required to complete hearings on
subversive movements on the West
Coast.
Sees Results From Action.
Credit for seven major accom-
plishments were taken by the COM
mittee: These were mentioned as
follows:
l. Indictment of Earl BroWder
general secretary of the Communist
party.
@ Conviction of Fritz Kuhn, head
OF the German American Bund.
3. Prosecution of Nicholas Dozen
berg on charges of counterfeiting
for the Communist International
4. That William Dudley Pelley
head of the Silver Shirts, disap-
peared rather than appear like a
man before the committee to
answer questions. or to appear in the
Superior Court in Asheville, N. C..
to show cause why his parole should
not be revoked and North Carolina
sentence carried out.
S. That Arno Rissi and Mrs. Leslie
Fry, "West Coast Nazi and Fascist
leaders, have fled the country for
good and sufficient reason
6. That officials of the Rus
sian propaganda agency Bookninga
pleaded guilty Gin District Court
to failure to register under the
Foreign Agents Registration Act, and
that similar cases are being prepared
by the Department Of Justice.
7. Many bills of corrective
nature have been introduced and
passed by the House"
Dies Ill in Texas.
The name of Chairman Dies, i'll
at his home in Orange. Tex, was
signed to the report by Robert E
Stripping, secretary of the COM
mittee. Representative Starnes
Democrat, of Alabama, released the
report for publication with the fol-
lowing comment:
"It speaks for itself"
Other members of the committee
are Representatives Voorhis, Demo-
crat, of California; Dempsey, Demo-
crat of New Mexico; Casey. Demo-
crat, of Massachusetts,: Mason, Re-
publican, of Illinois, and Thomas
Republican, of New Jersey.
Text of Dies Committee
Report to Congress