The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-21
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 Or RoVo Letter Dept: House nf Reprosentativos, Washington, D. O. Dec. 1S, 104O: ny dear HzF. Winchell: May take aavan. tage Of this opportunity Co exc press my appreciation tO you for
 your loyal support. You have not hesitated t0 criticize the COm- mittee when you believed that we
 had made mistakes and have acc
 cented such constructive criticism
 as evidence of your interest in the
 work we are doing. Unlike some
 people, you have been equally Op-
 posed to all forms of dictatorship
 and un-American activities. You
 have supported the Committee
 when we exposed Communists ac-
 tivitles the same as when we ex-
 posed Naxi activities. Your atti-
 tude has, therefore, been one of
 a real American who is opposed
 tO all forms of totaIitarianism ...
 Whether the Committee is con-
 tinued or not shall always have
 a warm spot In my heart for you
 as result of your loyal support
 and splendid help.-Sincerely
 sOurs, Martin Dies"
 Cong. Dies of Texas, who can be trusted to reach his full nuisance value during the years of Presi- dential elections, has made accusa- tions against this reporter He made them on the floor of the House, where his immunity relieves him of the job of proving them. Proof is of no great concern to Dies. The whole history of his Committee to Investigate Un-Ameri- can Affairs is @ travesty on the methods of honest trial In fact, Congress offers no better example of the kangaroo court than the Dies Committee.
 Dies comes up with a request for finances every year. They are voted to him by the most violently anti Administration forces in Congress. So 1t is up to Dies to pay off for that support by embarrassing the Administration whenever he can most reckless in election years Wincheu, whose broatlcasts have ats tackled the stand of the crew that vote Dies his appropriation, and of- fered support to the other side, was an ideal victim for the Dies blather- skiting. Dies can pass around his tin cup for his next appropriation with the sales talk that he fought their fight against the Winchell broadcasts.
 How long will America stand for this person from Texas? Look at him! What Is he? One of the dime-a-dozen statesmen of no par- ticular stature He got his first appropriation by convincing the gullibles that America was threat. ened with overthrow by the Com murl4stS. Whom did he pin the plot on? Stann2 No. Trotsky? No, no. I'll tell you whom he dragged up as the powerful menace to the American way of life. He named Shirley Temple. Shirley, not yet ten years old at the time, was the excuse Dies offered for the hundred and some thousand dollars he wheedled out of Congress at a time when the Bundists and other genu. inc enemies of democracy were at their strongest.
 We must be Q fun.loWng people, or Dies would not have been In pub- lie life all this time His later revelations" while lacking the rich low-comedy of the Temple expose, have been equally asinin. For the most part, Dies harasses the help- less. His special dish is a govt em- ploye. Acting on the assumption that an underlIng in govt service has no great influence, Dies serves them up in job lots as dangerous Reds These recurrent blasts re- quire the Dept of Justice to waste a lot of time in investigation. The probe usually proves that Dies was talking through his hat. Mighty few of his accusations hold water.
 Now Dies ts demagoging about fair play. He argues that when a broadcaster makes a charge. the person named shall have the oppor- tunity to reply But look who's saying itl .. Dies charges, so often disproved, have been made repeat- edly without the accused being of- fered . chance to defend themselves. They usually know they've been in. vestigated when they read the Con. greSSrnan's findings" in tn head lines. He has been known to hunt down his victims without even no. tifying the members of his own com. mittee It's almost as If he were afraid of his own evidence, fearful that 1t couldn't stand up under fair discussion. Members of his own committee have expressed them selves as sickend and disgustd by his tactics and only charged him with operating @ kangaroo court. This is the man who is chairman of a committee to investigate uI1- American affairs. What does he call American?
 Yet, session after session. he comes up to ask Congress for noney--and gets tt -. Why aren't we taxpa- CTS told what he docs with this money? He has never justifid its expenditure His record IS almost free of operations against the agents of the Axis. On the rare occasions that he has (Inaybe to save his face) made 6 charge against Nazi stooges, it has always been long after their crimes have been reported in the newspapers and magazines Dies has never needed those fat appro- priations to find out those things. A few bucks to buy the newspapers and magazines would have covered SAe whole thing, and Dies could have restorted the balance of the ap. pEopElaIion have never read of him doing so And I