Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-07
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
Pegler

re9ler
THE Dies committee received
l. unexpected. If grud z &.
praise from a New Dealer In a
recent congressional discussion
of the use of the radio to smear.
statesmen and other citizen4t
who have resisted the Roose<
welt governments alliance with
the Communists.
On that occasion. Adolph j.
SABBATH of Chicago, the dean OF
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.
SNIEARLY all the charges
~ which appeared In Under
Cover can he found In the evil
dence presented to the (Dies)
committee" Mr.. SABBATH said.
IL call attention TO the APP
pendiy Of the report Of the COM
mite In which sppear the names
OF 652 individuals, lis organiza.
tions and 80 publications In
connection with the investiga-
tion Of George Sylvester Wreck
and Nazi activities.
II believe II contains more
damaging evidence than that
which appears In Under
Cover
"Some gentlemen have sug-
gested that the sale Of Under
Cover he stopped.
81 have a suggestion as tn how
IL may he done and that IL by
having reprints nj Part VII If
the Appendix published, for
which there will he a large de-
mand by reason Of the fact that
IL contains more complete In
formation about the reasonable
and seditious activities of the
Hitler financed organizations
and publications than Under
Cover" n
DIRE ENDING TO be naive
L Mr.. SABBATH wondered why
this free public material did
not receive the same publicity
that was given TO some dis
closures of Communist filtration
into the Roosevelt government
and the Communist union dc
tatorship over masses OF Amer.
lean citizens in the unions.
He is not naive. however.
Mr. SABBATH knows all the tricks
and switches of European propa-
ganda methods.
The reasons reveal them
selves when the facts are in
spected
In the first place the in
formation did receive great
publicity and the department
Of justice has been going 10
the Dies committee files for
data on which 10 base indict-
ments and prosecutions Of enemy
agents and of Americans who.
unWiSely. 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 II 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
muniSts or those radicals Of the
Roosevelt following who played
along with them and continue
to do so.
Mr.. RooSevelts friend and
political ally. Sidney Hillman, IS
one of the latter group,
BE IL remembered that II 4
Communists we're not mere
iSolationlsts, They were AXIS
collaborationiStS, appeasers and
saboteurs until Hitler attacked
Russia
They co-operated with the
anti-American 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 at North Amer
lean and Allis-Chalmers.
THE reason Communists have
l. received so much continuing
publicity is that they were well
coined back into agencies az the
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 will wipe them out and
may leave their families desti-
tute, have been called away 10
fight.