The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09
Fair Enough

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responsibility for the personal views OF Mr. Pegler
and often disagree with them much as many Of
his readers His articles serve the good purpose Of
making people think.
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER ..
NEW YORK. The Dies Committee received
unexpected, if grudging, praise from a new
dealer in a recent congressional discussion
of the use of the radio to smear statesmen
and other citizens who have resisted the Roose
welt governments alliance with the Com
munists. On that occasion, Adolph J. Sabth,
discussing book called Under Cover, COM
piled from information already dredged up by
Congressman Dies and his investigators. The
author of this compendium had presented this
material as though it were new and startling
stuff Thousands of copies had been sold under
the artificial sales stimulus of the new deal
Communist political axis, operating in print and
over the air
|. NEARLY all the charges which appeared in
Under Cover can be found in the evidence
obtained and presented to the Dies) Com
nittee, Mr.. SABBATH said. Il call attention to
the appendix of the report of the Committee
in which appear the names of 652 individuals,
lis organizations and 80 publications in con-
nection with an investigation of George Syl-
vester Viereck and Nazi activities. I believe it
contains more damaging evidence than that
which appears in Under Cover. Some Gentle
men have suggested that the sale of Under
Cover be stopped. I have a suggestion to
how it may be done and that is by having re-
prints of part VII of the appendix published
for which there will be a large demand by
reason of the fact that it contains more COM
plete information about the reasonable and
seditious activities of the Hitler financed
organizations and publicists than Under
Cover"
Knows The Tricks
Pretending to be naive. Mr.. SABBATH wondered
why this free public material did not receive
the same publicity that was given to some
disclosures of Communistfiltratio into the
Roosevelt government and the Communist
union dictatorship over masses of American
citizens in the unions. He is not naive how
ever MIR. SABBATH knows all the tricks and
switches of European propaganda methods.
The reasons reveal themselves when the
facts are inspected.
In the first place the information did receive
great publicity and the department of justice
has been going to the Dies Committees files
for data on which to base indictments and
prosecutions of enemy agents and of Ameri-
cans who unwisely, or for cupable reasons.
associated with them. Some of the latter are,
as Mr.. SABBATH knows, brave and intensely
patriotic Americans who opposed involvement
in the war before Pearl Harbor and could not
help it that the enemy agents and some doubt
full Americans played along with them but for
| other reasons. But the department of Justice
has never gone after either the traitorous
communists or those radicals of the Roosevelt
following who played along with them and
! continue to do so. Mr. RooSevelts friend and
political ally, Sidney Hillrnan. is one of the
latter group.
Be it remembered that the Communist were
not merely isolationists. They were axis COLA
i borationists, appeasers and saboteurs until Hit
| Ter attacked Russia. They co-operated with
the antiAmerican bund and tried to associate
themselves with the America First Committee.
They were active, violent traitors to the United
States. and they promoted dangerous fraudu-
lent strikes against the national defense at
North American and Allis-Chalmers
The reason why the Communists have re-
ceived so much continuing publicity is that
they were welcomed back into agencies of
the government and other positions Of power
after Hitler attacked Russia. Some of the worst
offenders in the CLIO unions have received
permanent draft deferments appeal to the
President while decent Americans with child
rem established homes mortgages and flnanc-
ial commitments which will wipe them out and
NAV leave their families destitute, have been
called away to fight
i The FBI and the Departmet of Justice have
Il been on top of the pro-Axis element and some
some good and loyal Americans who unwilling
ly associated with Them like chicken on a
June bug But Communists, themselves, and
persons who associated with them have been
taken under the Roosevelt wing The office OF
War Information has been crawling with them
The Dies Committee, however, has kept
after them and those who have knowingly a
ISOLATED with traitors and saboteurs and
enemies of the American government as Mr..
Biddle, the attorney general, once called the
Communists in an unguarded moment of exas.
peraton
And there you have the reason for the new
deal-communist campaign to dscredit the Dies
Committee
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