Evening star., 1941-09-08
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Dies letter to Presi-
dent Roosevelt tollotus:
My dear Mr.. President:
AS chairman of the Special Com
mittee on Un-American ACTIVITIES,
I deem 1t my duty to bring to your
attention a situation which exists
in the Office of Price Administration
and Civilian Supply
I have previously informed the
House of Representatives that the
price administrator, Mr.. Leon Hen
derson, has IN the recent past been
connected with several of the front
organizations or transmission belts
of the Communist party. He was,
in fact. the president Of the Wash
ington branch of one OF the largest
of the Communist party's auXilla-
ries. the Spanish Refugee Reile1
Campaign.
It is a matter of public record
that Mr.. Henderson himself as
sauited a local news photographer
when that representative OF the
nress tried to take pictures at a
reception which the price admin
istrator was giving for nationally
urominent Communist who was as
sociated with him in the work OF
the Spanish relief organization.
The record is perfectly clear with
respect to Mr.. Henderson's own
connections with these Communist
enterprises, and I may be permitted
the observation that this record
cannot be negated by Mr.. Hender-
sons i'll temper toward those VINO
insist on the public's right 10 nave
the facts.
Office Held Stated
By Communist Thinking Aides.
Waving for the present the
question of Mr.. Henderson, own
connections with Communist trans
mission belts, I wish to lay before
Won Mr.. President, certain facts
which show that the Office OF Price
Administration and Civilian Supply
is stated with appointed ofnclals
whose recorded views are COM
nletely at variance with any concept
of AmericaniSm that could mo Suo-
stantial support among the Amer
lean people.
The recorded views of Mr.. Hen
derson's chief subordinates, as L
shall presently make clear, are views
which have found acceptance only
in Communist circles. In this pres
ent communication, I shall confine
mvself to the records of the follow
ing individuals:
Robert A. Brady, head consultant
of o. P. A. C. s., salary S7,500;
Tom Tippett, assistant chle1 OF
rent section of o. P. A. G. s., salary
$500; .,
Dewey H. Palmer, consultanC Oh
o. P. A. C. s., salary $40 a day;
Mildred Edie Brady, principal
snecislist in consumer education OF
O.FP. A. C. S., salary $500.
30 Others Said to Have
Communist Front Records.
In addition to these four prom
inent assistants in the Office OF
Price Administration and Civilian
Supplv there are at least so other
emploves in Mr.. Henderson's agen-
cv who have records of af1liation
with Communist-front organiza-
tions.
Let me begin with Mr.. Bradys
record In 1887. the Left Book Club
of England published volume writ
ten by Robert A Brady. The vol
ume bears the imprint on its title
page of the London publishers, Vic
tor Gollancz Ltd.
In his recent testimony before
the Committee on Banking and Cur
rency, Mr.. Henderson stated that
he ran through" this Brady volume
at the time of its publication. 1t
must, therefore, be assumed that
the price administrator had some
knowledge of the views of his head
consultant before he appointed him
to one of the most important posts
in the Government. In his testi-
mony before the committee, Mr..
Henderson conveyed the impression
that Brady's volume was nothing
more than an attack on NaziSm. He
did not, of course, commit himself
to an Endorsement of every sentence
of Brady's book. He did, however,
make perfectly clear to the House
Committee that he was not prepared
to repudiate the thesis and spirit of
the volume. He merely observed
that there were "a couple of pas
sages" in the Bible itself about
which he had some reservations" "
This might be taken to mean that
Henderson's Endorsement of Brady's
book is pretty sweeping, although
not absolute.
Called Attack on NaZiism
From Communist Standpoint.
I have no hesitation, Mr.. Presi-
dent, in asserting that this Brady
volume is from beginning to end
an exposition of, and an attack
upon, Nazism from the standpoint
of the Communist party "line'-as
that Zine was laid down by Moscow
in the year 1887" am confident
that any unbiased reading of the
book will result in that conclusion.
I submit herewith for your exami-
nation reproductions of certain
pages from Brady's book. I call
your special attention, Mr.. Presi-
dent. to the following excerpts:
THE American N. R. A. pro-