Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-08
FAIR
En- OUCH
By Westbrook
PegIer

T'HE Dies committee received
unexpected, If grudg ing,
: praise from a New Dealer in a
recent congressional discussiork
of the Use of the radio TO smeaa
statesmen and-ether- citizens-
who have resisted the RooSe-
welt governments alliance with
the Communists.
ON that occasion, Adolph J.
SABBATH of Chicago. the dean of
the lower house, was discussing
a book called Under Cover"
compiled from information al
ready dredged up by Congress
man Dies and his Investigators.
The author of this COM
pendulum had presented this
material as though il were new
and startling stuff.
HNEARLY all the charges
which appeared In Under
Cover can he found I'm the evil
dence presented tn the (Dies)
committee" Mr.. SABBATH said.
IL call attention Ia the APP
pendiN Of the report Of the COM
mite In which appear the names
of 652 individuals, us organiza-
tons and 33 publications in
connection with the insestiga-
ton of George sylvester Wreck
and Nazi activities.
II believe IL contains more
damaging evidence than that
which appears In Under
Cover
Some gentlemen have sug-
gested that the sale of Under
Cover he stopped.
II have a suggestion ~ In how
II may he done and that IL by
having reprints OF Part VII Of
the Appendix published. for
which there Will he a large de-
mand by reason of the fart that
II contains more complete In
formation about the reasonable
and seditious activities Of tho
Hitler financed organizations
and publications than 'Unden
Cover"
DRETENDING 10 be nave,
Mr. SABBATH wondered why
this free public material did
not receive the same publicity
that was given 10 some dis
closures Of Communist filtration
into the Roosevelt government
and the Communist union dic-
tatorShip over masses Of Amer
lean citizens in the unions.
He IS not naive however.
VI Satati1 knows ut tire tricks
and switches of European propa-
ganda methods
The reasons reveal them
selves when the facts are IN
SpeCtcd
In the first piace tire IN
formation did receive great
publicity and the department
OF justice has been gong 10
the Dies committee files for
data on which 10 base indlCt-
ments and prosecutions Of enemy
agents and of Americans who.
uhWlScly. or for culpable reasons,
associated with them
Some Of the latter are As Mr..
SABBATH knows, brave and IN
tensely patriotic Americans who
opposed involvement In the war
before Pearl Harbor and could
not help il that the enemy
agents and some doubtful Amer
leans played along with them
but for other reasons.
DUT the department Of JUS
~ tice has never gone after
either the traltorous Com
munlSts or those radicals NJ the
Roosevelt following who played
along with them and continue
10 do so
Mr.. RooSevclts friend and
political ally Sidney Hillman. IS
one Of the latter group =
BE II remembered that ( -
Communists were not merely
isolationiSts They were AXIS
collaborationiSts. appeaSers and
SabOteurs until Hitler attacked
Russia.
They co-operated with the
anti-Amerlcan bund and tried
10 associate themselves with the
America First Committee.
They were active. violent
traitors 10 the United States.
and they promoted dangerous
fraudulent strikes against the
national defense AZ North Amer
lean and Allis-Chalmers.
I'VE reason Communists have
received so much continuing
publicity is that they we're wei.
coined hack into agencies NJ he
government and other positions
Of power after Hitler attacked
Russia.
Some of the worst offenders
In the Go unions have received
permanent draft deferments on
appeal 10 the President while
decent Americans with children,
established homes. mortgages
and financial commitments
which viii wipe thcm out and
may leave their families desti-
tllte have been called away n
fight.
I'VE FBI and the department
Il Of Justice have been on ton