Evening star., 1940-01-03

Roosevelt.
deceive the great mass Of earnest
and devoted American citizens. The
committee finds that the danger to
American democracy lies not only
in the rather remote possibility that
Communists, Nazis, or FasciSts will
succeed in q frontal attack on our
constitutional government and over
throw it, but also in the much
greater change that each extreme
totalitarian group seeking by decep-
ton to advance its own cause and
pad its ranks will succeed in convinc-
ing really substantial number of
people that their only defense
against violence from the opposite
extreme is to accept the violence of
the one they find least Objectionable.
The committee condemns without
reservation the evident willingness
of some supposedly responsible peo-
pie to endanger the very civil peace
of their country by encouraging,
for purely political purposes, sus-
picion, fear, and bigotry of the
worst sort. Those on the right of
political center cannot in the long
run be benefited nor can they save
their country by attempting to
brand as Communists all those on
the left of that center. Conversely,
those on the left cannot advance
their cause nor save their country
by leveling the charge of Facism
and attempting to brand as tools
of Hitler alr who would proceed
more slowly than themselves.
The committees work should re-
suit in freeing the progressive and
labor movements from Communist
control or domination and in pre-
venting sincere conservatives from
temporizing with essentially Facist
| or Nazi groups or PHILOSOPHERS. If
| the findings of this committee were
to be used as a pretext for the
building of an un-American move
ment of any sort on the excuse
that such movement were nee
essary to combat such-and- d-such a
danger to the country clearly a
disservice to our democratic insti-
tutions would have been done. The
committee wishes to state en-
aphaticallv that the only proper and
democratic method whereby un-
American activities can be effec-
| lively combatted is by the duly con-
stituted law-enforcing bodies Of
America operating under our Con-
stitution and with the support of
an informed public opinion.
THE COMMUNITS PARTY AS A
BRANCH OF THE SOVIET
GOVERNMENT.
Hundreds of pages Of testimony
have established the fact that the
Communist party of the United
States can make no more than a
superficial claim that it is ''politi-
cal party" in the sense in which the
American people understand those
words. It is. on the contrary, a
constituent member of the Com
munist International and is its
agent in the United States. The
Communist International in turn is
completely dominated by the Com
munist party of Soviet Russia.
The committee is forced to con-
clude that in practice, the Com
munist party is actually functioning
as a border patrol" on American
shores for a foreign power-the
Soviet Union.
Since the Communist party of the
United States has the avowed pur-
pose of drastically changing the
form of government Of the United
States, it is the opinion of the COM
mittee that the party's activities
constitute a violation Of the treaty
of recognition entered into between
the Government of the United
States and the government of the
U. S. S. r. in 1888.
The evidence for these conclusions
come from three sources: Cd Admis-
sions drawn from the present leaders
of the party, including Earl Browder,
William z Foster. Max Bedacht,
William Weiner and Alexander
Trachtenberg.
CD Testimony of former leaders
of the party who had themselves
engaged in all the operations Of this
international conspiracy, including
Ben Gitlow. Jay Lovestone, Fred E
Beal, Joseph zack and w. G. Kri-
vitsky.
90 The official literature and
publications of the Communist
party and of the Comintern (the
Communist internationally.
The evidence for our conclusion
with respect to the true nature OF
the Communist party is both direct
and cumulative. 1t falls into the
following subdivisions:
Cd History of the Comintern.-The
Communist Party of the United
States is an admitted section or af-
filiate of the Communist 1nterna-
tional. The Communist 1nterna-
tional was founded in 1919 on the
initiative of the Communist party
OF the Soviet Union and under the
personal leadership of Lenin. The
Communist party of the Soviet
Union rules the U. S. S. R., and ac-
cording to the testimony of numer-
Gus witnesses who appeared before
the committee, it likewise rules, un-
challenged, the Communist Inter
national of which the American
/ Communist party Is an afnliate.
ca Statutes Of the Comintern.-
The basic law governing the work.