Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25


Representative Dies of helping Hitler.
Then, with the vice president to quote the friendly
correspondents rushed their STORIES, making Vice
President Waaces epistle the lead and giving Mr. Dies
statement the secondary place.
AS consequence of the vice president being vice
president the whole story got the front pages of New
Deal papers and of papers hostile to the Dies Committee
which-without the Wallace statement-would perhaps
have played down" the Dies statement obscurey on an
So Mr. wallace's miscalcuated shot "back-fred" on
him.
Episode TWO Representative Jerry Voorhis arose in
L the House and disclosed that c. Hartley Grattan,
economic analyst for the Board of Economic warfare at
$5600 year. wrote foreword for the German white
paper" issued in May, 1910 which, Mr.. Voorhis said
g.. attempt to lay the blame for the invasion
of Poland certain AMERICAN officials"
Mr. Dies had identified Grattan in his letter to the
vice president the author of Preface to Chaos which,
Mr. Dies said book predicting world communism after
the
Mr. voorhs capped this by presenting Grattan to
Congress as also propaganda for nazism.
If that confusing, it is readily clarified by
paper" appeared, SOVIET RUSSIA WAS IN ALLIANCE
WITH NAZI GERMANY and in this country, defense of
the Naz aggressons was THE COMMUNIST PARTY
LINE"
Episode THREE-On the very day when Representa-
L. tive Voorhs contributing his disclosure, White
House press secretary issued release from the Federal
Communications Commission, which said that the Axis
radio propaganda shortwaved to this country quot
ing from the statements made by both Vice President
Wallace and Representative Dies-"pubczing" in the
United States on very limited scale something which
had already been 'pubczed" extensively by the vice
president of the United States in the entire press OF the
But naturally the Communist DAILY Worker" in New
York gave the White House release eight-column
headline the front page of its issue for April g.
"FDR backs Wallace" the daily Worker alleged in
a sub-head and added in its Washington dispatch
observers here believe that the President and other
high officials planning about attack Dies when
his appropriation before the House probably within
the next two weeks"
EPISODE FOUR-At the same time the National
Z Lawyers Guild-FROM WHICH ASSISTANT SEC
RETARY OF STATE BERLE RESIGNED SOME WHILE
AGO ON THE GROUNDS THAT THE GUILD WAS
COMMUNIST-D OMINATED-add addressed congratulatory
letter to Vice President Wallace demanding that the Dies
Committee be discontinued but NOT demanding that any
Communists pro-Communst be dismissed from the
federal civil service and congratuatng the vice president
for his splendid statement accusing the committee of
helping Hitler by exposing American Reds
EPISODE FIVE-Representative Dies proceeded to de-
l. liver the perfect and final to his adversares
He gave the Associated Press statement saying
that "the best way stop Axis powers from quoting
material charging the of members OF Communist
controlled organizations upon the public pay roll is to
Mr.. Dies also said:
THE IS people mentioned in my letter working
for PGsTsr PaTT,1g ngsn1 HAVE NOTHING TO DO
WITH WINNING THE WAR
"They are TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE WAR
EFFORT to lay plans to- REMAKE OUR COUNTRY.
Certainly the American people expect us to expose
these people and GET THEM off the pay roll.
Are going to permit government officials to take
advantage of the defeat aims and purpOses?
"The organization to which they belong, the Ameri-
League for Peace and Democracy adopted resoIu
ton at a convention PLEDGING IT'S MEMBERS TO
OBTAIN JOBS IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE AND TO
SB0TAGE OUR WAR EFFORT.
"Should members Of this kind of organization hold
key positions i'm government"
EPISODE SIX-On the day after Mr.. Dies statement
L was issued the following factua report appeared in
a New York newspaper:
more than 1000 seamen shipyard workers and radio
operators have been discharged suspected of being
un-American,' IL revealed yesterday at quaca-
ton board hearing at third naval district headquarters
THE dismssals ordered, il said, by Frank
Knox secretary of the navy.
The hearing upon appeal by Murray Vino
cur, vice president of the American Communications
Association from his dismissal from a radio job
tanker"
The American Communications Association is one Of
the labor organizations listed by the Dies Committee in
its reports TO Congress having heavy Communist
pro- Communist membership.
So that it will be obvious to all intelligent readers
that under existing federal law the army and navy are