Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
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Dies Committee Value

This committee has had TO contend against several
serious obstacles in the past
One has been a continuous smear" campaign con-
Quoted by radical newspaper critics and by Communists
and their sympathizers-a campaign TO which official
hostility has than given disreputable support
Another difficulty has been the limitation of the
committees existence to one-year terms, that every
December has caused interruption of its work and
threatened to disrupt its inVestigative organization
Ard third difficulty has been stngy appropriations
in fact with only $4,000 its original allotment the
committee accomplished wonders its first year toward
making the country aware of the growing menace of
subversive alien sms.
ONCE then even official Washington to have
= become convinced that the Dies Committee has
than justified itself and is reported that the rules
committee the House will readily approve its con-
tinuance.
If So the appropriations committee should gladly
sanction the amount Of funds for which the committee
asks.
National defense is now the great national effort
The work and the vigilance of the Dies Committee
have come comprise exceedingly important phase
of this effort.
The committee has thoroughly exposed the Commu
MIST Fascist and Naz invasion of this country and has
done than any other agency perhaps could do to
break up their organizations and to thwart their
Vaccinations.
IN ITS earlier period the committee operated largely
l upon political front
With its disclosures of Red" penetration even
dominaton-of certain labor groups the committee ex
tended its researches the economic 'front.' and conse
euentlv in of the fact that industry and znan
power are now being drafted for rearmament, the
committee has found itself engaged upon our military
front
Sabotage or inspired" strikes in our plants could
dangerously hamper impair costly defense activities
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the criminal
laws exist to punish sabotage WHEN 1T HAS BEEN
COMMITTED.
The function of the Dies Committee, the contrary,
is to prevent sabotage by exposing its agents BEFOkE
THE SABOTAGE-AND THE MATERIAL DAMAGE
OCCUR.
IN THE course of its extensive Investigations the COM
| mittee has performed still another high service by
discovering numerous defects in present laws.
Accordingly in duly reporting to Congress, the COM
mttee recommends:
1.-THE enactment of legislation to bring about the
= immediate mandatory deportation of alien spies
and saboteurs.
0-"The mandatory deportation of aliens who advocate
q any basic change in the form of our government
o-"The enactment of legislation requiring that ALL
EMPLOYEES AND OFFICIALS OF OUR FED
ERAL GOVERNMENT BE AMERICAN CITIZENS.
H-"WhhoId all federal financial support from any
+ educational institution which permits members of
its faculty to advocate communism, fascsm or nazsm
as substitute for form of government.
1.-THE enactment of legislation TO outlaw every
political organization which is shown to be under
the control of foreign government
c-"The enactment of legislation to stop all immigra-
ton from foreign countries that refuse to accept
the return of their nationals found under American
law to be deportable from this country.
1.-THE passage of added legislation to place restric-
tions the distribution of totaitarian propaganda
when that distribution involves cost TO the Ameri-
can taxpayers and is shipped from foreign sources
o-"That the statutory period during which citizenship
papers be revoked under existing law be ex-
tended to at least 10 years"
Every one of these recommendations is vital to our
welfare and safety.
The committees program in this aspect proves that
Congress as well the nation needs to have the COM
mittee kept at its job.
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