Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
Reds WaiIinq
At BiddIe's
Proved Case
Shun Court Action. Ask
for Political SaIve
BY PAUL MALLON


torney General Biddle's proof
that their party teaches Ito use
his words and theirs) violent
overthrow of existing govern
ments, including the United
States, gives their whole case
away fully and irretrievably.
II Mr.. Biddle wanted list Of
citizens whose minds run along
the Connie line, a better list
than Dies ever got, all he has
to do is read his mail.
A New York newspaper Of
screeching Com m u mist SYM
pathies is urging readers to
write Biddle, and it furnishes a
coupon for tn a t purpose, on
which a space is left for the
address as well as the name.
Don't leave off the address, COM
rades, so the F'BI will be able
to find you promptly, in case
of need.
But a better joke on the Com
mics and their sympathizers is
the line their leadership in this
Bridges case has taken. Mr..
Biddle made his decision on a
basis of law and legal proof.
In fact, he was so considerable
Of Bridges and the Commies he
publicly pointed out the way
they could and should appeal his
decision to the Supreme Court.
But are they Fastening to the
courts for justice? Not at all.
They want a political recon-
sideration by Biddle. They say
they want him to reverse his
findings of the law Immediately
on the purely political ground it
. would be a horrible thing for
the domestic Commies to be dis
pleased with Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr..
Biddle and the American gov
eminent.
Only a defendant who has
very bad case openly seeks pro-
lection of the cloak of politics
against the law.
They claim they would and
could interfere with our war
effort. Is any further confess
sion necessary of their power
among us and their subversive
inclinations toward us, than this
from their own mouths and
from the mouths of their most
ardent sympathizers?
THE general impression in
Il Congress and downtown in
side the government is that
Biddle's decision was a personal
and conscientious one.
He saw the President just
afterwards, but says that matter
was not discussed. He gives a
convincing off-the-record expla-
nation of another matter which
was discussed and it had moth
ing to do with communism.
Nevertheless, some officials
chose to suspect the. decision
was rendered as a domestic
political Offset to the presi-
Dental pardon of the perennial
Communist presidential candi-
date, Mr.. Browder. They say
that decision caused a bad i'm
preston out in the country
which needed correcting.
Certainly ii seems true that
the President later recon-
mended a declaration of war
against Bulgaria, Rumania and
Hungary for the sake of Russian
relations to a considerable ex-
tent. 1t holsters Stains posi-
ton.
But the Red government has
never yet appealed to this gov
eminent in behalf of domestic
Connie, holding consistently
that the local boys are beyond
their jurisdiction.
Therefore, international con-
siderations could hardly have
had anything to do with either
the Browder or Bridges cases,
and our relations with Russia
cannot be affected one way or
another by whatever is done
with the local boys.
Mr.. Roosevelt has carefully
kept these two things in their
right places, where the Commies
maintain they should be.
THE domestic Commies always
l. appeal to our bighearted
liberals on the ground that
they are prosecuted verbally by
Red-baiters in this country,
and they are raising this point
again to gain adherents against
Mr.. Biddle, claiming the right
10 agitate in the Daily Worker,
to designate loyal and disloyal
American citizens, to weed out
their political opponents, to tell
our Congress what to do, to call
Mr.. Roosevelt a war monger"
at intervals when they are on
that side of the party line. and
TO infilter into our labor unions
or wherever they can.
They would have impressive
appeal II they could arrange for
us Democrats TO do the same
in Moscow.
Their influence with Stain
does not seem TO be great, and
perhaps he might not like the
idea. but il would certainly
help their claims here if they
could arrange with him TO have
us publish a paper in Moscow
advocating democracy as the
best form of government, let us
infilter into their labor groups