Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-24
New Dies
Findings
Valuable
PeeIer Believes Warning
Must Be Needed
BY wEsTBROOK PEGLER

BY wEsTBROOK PEGLER
MARTIN DIES, the Texas
Ava congressman, who is chair
man of body that may properly
be called the anti-treason COM
mittee of the House Of Represen-
tatives, has sent to- Francis
Biddle, the attorney general of
the moment, memorandum
listing 1.124 government en-
ployes and officials who have
been identified with subversive
organizations.
This list is incomplete because
the Dies Committee has not yet
caught up with its work in the
new agencies which have been
created for the purpose OF de-
tense, or more correctly, war.
In this case "subversive"
means "communistic," as the
present government is and al
ways has been hostile to Nazi
and Fascist, but VIGOROUSLY kind
TO Kremlinites Of various hues
and markings.
Mr.. Biddle asked for this list.
but II may be assumed that
neither he nor the department Of
justice will take any action that
might embarrass any Muscovite.
OBVIOUSLY the names, affili-
" atoms, political background.
present positions and salaries Of
l,124 suspects form too bulky a
mass for presentation. in full. In
the daily press. or for careful
reading by the people, even II
they should be published.
Thus the Dies report 10 Mr..
Biddle Will be just another OF
those Monday morning dog
STORIES and will soon be for.
gotten.
Nevertheless, Mr.. Dies will be
more right than wrong. for he
and his colleagues and the staff
have learned much about pro-
cedure since the days when this
yaller-haired Texan, who is
raw-boned mentally as well as
physically, went laundering into
action and into print as q novice
in his job.
Had he devoted himself solely
10 the denunciation OF Fascists
and Nazis his picture even now
would adorn one OF the minor
issues OF postage or revenue
stamps.
LIS mistakes, which were huge
IL and noisy. were derisively
exploited to the discredit OF his
solid achievements and he has
toiled on ever since against ev-
cry handicap that could be set
against him.
But during This time Mr.. Dies
has become a first-class author
ity on the Communist conspiracy
in its many cunning guises and
there is no other man In the
United States who knows as well
as he does the relationships be-
tween hundreds OF organizations
and thousands OF individuals
concerned in the program 10
wreck or. disestablish the CAPT.
talist civilization under which.
alone, the worker is a free man
entitled TO the fruits of his toll.
This sort of investigation IL
not a matter of argument on the
nature of communism, facism
and nazism. although Dies has
been. under constant temptation
TO stray into theoretical boys in
pursuit Of his tormentors.
He quickly learned that les
son and settled down TO the job
OF reading thousands of doc,i-
ments and periodicals in which
his quarry unwarily associated
themselves with organizations
hostile TO this nation and friendly
to Moscow and wrote more or
less flaming declarations of their
beliefs.
The files OF the Dies commit
tee are huge and as rich AZ
sausage in fine detail and when
he offers the charge that 1.124
officials and lesser employees OF
the federal government are or
have been members OF subver-
sive. which is TO say, Communist
ORGANIZATIONS or subsidiaries
thereof. il may be assumed that
he is capable Of proving up on
every individual.
And his warning should not be
airily ignored that since Russia
became a military ally or cousin
OF this nation, the comrades
have found greater opportuni-
ties than ever before TO crawl
into influential positions and
work for the destruction OF the
American form OF government.
WHY this government has
w been friendly to Com
munlsts and hostile to the Nszi-
FasciSts Is a question that has