The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-24
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

ers. His articles serve the good purpose
of making people think)
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright 1915, by King Features Syndicate.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.-Collier's week.
lily recently ran a story by Ella Winter and
then one by Lillian Hellman, both of whom
ing to a rather nice habit of magazines,
gave the girls each bit of a sendoff or buildup
by way of introduction to the clientele.
OF Miss Winter, the blurb said she was born
in Australia and educated in England and got
her introduction to politics as a member of
the parliamentary committee of the British
Labor party. 1t added that she was once as
ISOLATED with Felix Frankfurter, one OF the
most aggressive influences in the remodeEng
of our form of government under the new
DEAL having served as his secretary at the
Paris Peace conference. 1t was news to me
that old Vicente had been mixed up in that
historic steak fry and I have been wonder
| ing how he managed to horn in and you could
have bowled me over with a flick OF an ostrich
fan when read that he and the Winter number
had been together that long ago. This 1ntorma-
| ton explains lot to me or, l might peter
say, confirms some opinions OF mine about the
of Harvard.
| The ad for Helman called her Americas
brilliant playwright and said her "enighten-
ing story reveals what the war has done to for
merly flourishing areas in Russia.
I read both pieces and found them nothing
special as writing and noted that Winters
story, which was more political than He'll
mans followed the familiar line which earned
them both numerous citations in the records
of the late Dies committee which, you may
remember Investigated not only Nazls and
Fascists in our midst but communists as we'll
and therefore caught the devil from the Bolos
and also from the yellows who are communists
without the courage to admit as much
The New York Herald Tribune ran piece
on Hellman on her return from her outing in
which she was quoted as having said that the
Russian government paid for her trip, prac-
tice that some of our papers used to 1roWn
upon in relation to the Major League baseball
writers on the ground that it placed them I'M
der obligations to their hosts. However, He'll
man has been such a coy friend OF the
communists for long, including the time
when this reace-loving non-aggressive ally of
ours was CALAMITY defending herself against
the unprovoked aggression OF mighty Fin
land and using Nazi officers to show them
tricks that nobody will suspect her OF singing
for her supper. She would have sung the same
tune anyway because it is her 1avorite tune.
1 remember that back in those days when
perfidious Finland was attacking innocent,
peace-loving Russia. TalLlah Bankhead got
mad enough to spit because she wanted to
throw benefit performance of show called
THE Little Foxes to raise money for Fin
ish relief and Hellnan wouldn't let her use
the play, which was her property, for this
purpose. Bankhead called up and wanted me
to denounce somebody fearlessly but thought
the situation had its compensation in the fact
that it showed pretty clearly what Hellman S
politics were.
1t seemed to me in reading the burbles
about the girls that Golfers had been guilty
of an oversight and, being a fellow who is |
always right there to field ball for pal
who has muffed one, I thought I would give
you some further background information about
these two star performers in our Park avenue
contemporary.
Winter is listed thirty times in the congress
seional document issued by the Dies commit
tee under the title of "CUmulative Index to
its report on communist front organizations
with special reference to the national citi-
zens political action committee" The old girl
certainly is great joiner for we find her
in a whole string of committees and editorial
boards, fronts and all such devices as the
Bolos contrive, and contributing to publications
which, of course never amounted to shucks,
but followed the line through its twists and
meanders. AS matter Of fact she isn't much
of a writer, herself, and if your little girl
couldn't do as well you might be inclined
to yank her out of school as a stop-loss, get
her a mop and bucket for her birthday and
tell her to make herself useful. For h a II
matter, most of those who call themselves
writer's in these fronts medocrities or
worse by critical standards and don't amount
to anything even in their own set.
Hellman has AZ citations in this index OF theI
Dies committee and as you flip the pages of
the committee report to see what they refer to
you find the usual run of committees, rallies,
causes and little, no-account sheets that hardly
anybody ever heard Of.
Now of course, this index contains the
names of many individuals who are no more
communist than Mussolni is Chinaman SO 1t
doesn't necessarily follow that these two old
babes are commy and pro-commy merely be-
cause they run such high score. AS to that
you have to draw your conclusions from the
consistency of their activity and the character
of the outfits and movements with which they
associated themselves and have drawn NINE
Moreover, it is okay with me for anyone to
be a communist or pro-comnunist which is
degree Of tolerance that have never encoun-
tered among those people but I just sort OF
think that Golfers in presenting their stuff
and blowing kisses at Winter and Holman,
would have served the public interest II 1t had
indicated their sympath and politics as sug-
gested by their records
incidentally, in the same issue with Hell
mans piece Golfers printed one by telow
who calls himself Kyle Crichton in Golfers
and Robert Forsythe in communist puohca-
tons to which he has cen persistent con-
tributor AS Forsythe, this one has seven CT
ind h11th q is diStinctlH |