The Wilmington morning star., 1942-03-14
StewartSavs
BY CHARLES P. sTru,
Central Press co,nn"aRT

Hestigation YES cation Of un-Americssso5' iss5'aa aa. H.
tn. t1es aren't adverse on the np aetivi.
that such activities ouuh. t!e ground
exposed, itsI t, but on the gro,ns g,5u ! TO be
IT'S a fizzle as an investiaa. rleuia that
It's a fact that the NJ. lssSoa
mlttee recently issued O.sS con-,
containing considerabIIa a repor.
n!a3or tlon relative especially to WIT; v,sto'na.
plclous-sounding Japane,vv W very sus,
$ service vice work in this 5ss COUNTS Secret
a long time past. The r'ura,ty naly 70,
however. however, that the reports pt5s point sta
,ni1rmaelon raittan;a obtained by . tbs bsay ''
Guilty" ''' great d,%
Representative Thomas
St etaeEs dEaSsaehusetts, of though, ps,ss'tt 1t
many of them dating bact ccttp9aa, |
a.o dozen e years, telling S@Sn tbs len IN Or
story in the fullest detsi1 Iae Sane
ly available to any reado, sall, perfect
aally aay. press ii in installmegnst,, tlgs, 0. T. The
appeared. t;ppe The report l,s, slso as it
men3, tis1 I,a;h ehoekful of highly co,t;5 fSsu
said to have been 'ShSl IN fag to9s and
1arlsts' ia possession for ionpp onp nj mill,
1t was, indeed, publisbeSv jug !; time
form. The Dies agents uso o5..o N book
"a. a copy a, of one of these vo1'nld UJ,a1ned
report iel . states. Representa-. The h,
lot got a copy by asking 'qave fov Ell
the Congressional LibraSry ;S ,'r 1T It at
read readily 9 forked it out at t. biS winch Ha
quest, and no questions - ,a1S Ills re-
The Massachusetts 1ssi.9c; asked.
tired tire Ito to discuss the matter SSlS,of on c.s
quorum of his fellow lsuns5,.' law ps1,
,',as wasn present iust then, 'Ils So bs
der. He circulated his i1D', n,?a o. Or
graphed speech nevertheless, s,''''e0'
A Rehash?
BY quoting from nas+ Will.
tons in his possession and puUncs' naus7
lellng his quotations with iden4io,i r@5all
ones IN the Dies report he aNr1,l.al mals
out a pretty g o d case ~ in 1AsnsS sl,p
port OF his contention that tbe sup, ra
ports a mere rehash Of o1J s'e .nI re,
already weIl-known stuff, vbicb ,a ana ho
thinks Director J. Edgar icTr Booysre ne
Federal Bureau of Invesi,ssos t,.sI
was familiar with long betose ss~Ss tss
Dies committees creation W. w
doesn't for a minute object 10 M
genuine Investigation, but his ths.
SIS IS that Dies kind is a fsEp
mainly for the purpose of adver.
tlsing Dies himself.
Another complaint is that Dies
concentrated too much on Com.
munlsts until the war actually
started, not bothing about Nszjs
fasclsts and Japs. This was al.
right IN pre-war days, but now
Communistic Russia's on the Unit.
ed Nations side, and the Dies folk
are accused of having gumned
the cards by an advance mishds. |
l admit | can't SEP
how they could have predicted how
the Allies and the Axis eventually |
would line up.
The truth is that the average
congressional investigating com,
mittee starts out to prove some.
thing, whether or not it's some.
thing that really exists.
The Dies committees mission
was to prove that the prevalence
OF Communistic subyerSives was
busy in our midst and to pin it
on EN-, rather than to ascertain
whether or not there were any,
And it had to find 'em, or what
was its raison d'etre ?Unfortunate.
ly, it didn't foresee that Commu.
nlSts were due shortly to be the
wrong game, and turned to Nazs,
Fascists and Japs pretty belatedlE
Its inquiry recalls one by a SIM
liar affair under Representatile
Hamilton Fish's chairmanship ap
proximately a decade ago.
Nazis, Fascists and Japs weren't
serious problems in that era,
Communism was our sole men'
ace and Ham Fish went after i
with a sharp stick.
"Maroon All Reds"
1t was a nutty sort of quiz
much like Martin Dies. Presently
Ham announced that all OIL
Communists ought to be n''
rooned on an island
But why not kill emf !
queried.
Mercy" replied Ham "Th;
would be barba1 GUS. If a ma
has smallpox, it's imperative
quarantine him. You don't
him, though
To this day, after that, don
recognize Ham Fish as subversN
for all the Hill and Vierick trla5
and all that. He's a kindly SOIL
and loyal, I'm convinced Of II
only rabid on the subject Of Rea!
Dies evidently classifies sl1i
larly.
Ham wanted mis- committee 10
advertise HIM. Dies wants n;
committee to publicize HIN.
Hams probably won't do ii, ,o
his presently coming election "a!
purposes. Maybe Dies will lo
HIM.
I'd surmise that Ham would ''
abolished at the polls in Nov .H
Der; not Martin Dies; not lid
soon.