The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-24
AS Pegler Sees It
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, l9A7, By King Features
s.... .Asnakn Inn

lconspiracy have been shielded from e1-
posure by the very difficulty OF presenting
the facts to the public. There are hundreds
of pages of testimony, always difficult read
ing and difficult to condense. There are IN
lterlacing relationships of persons and Or
carnations. There are thousands OF names
of individuals, including assumed names,
and of committees, councils, congresses,
leagues and the like.
The reptilian trails of Gerhart and Hams
Eisler Austrian refugees from Hltlefs gas
chambers, twist and squlrm through the
minutes of the Thomas Committee on un-
American Activities which exposed MRS
Eleanor Roosevelt's brazen interference
with the State Department on behalf OF
Hams Eisler when otherwise he would nave
been excluded from our country as COM
munist. Both brothers could have gone 10
Russia to escape the Nazi crematory, but
that was not their plan. They came here,
and Eleanor got busy to help Hams crash
our gate.
J. Edgar Hoover, director OF the F.b'1''
d;snoses of Gerhart's statement that he was
not communist in report to the Ihomas
j committee which says:
1 IL
lin the American communist movement. In
recent years he has been figure OF I'm,
nortance in connection with the policies ana
operations of the communist party, o.S.A.
| From approximately 1888 to approximately
1898, (he) was the representative ol sne ne.
communist international to the communist
nartv. U.S.A. He was responsible Tor the
control and direction of American commun-
ist operations, Eisler was the halson pc
tween the authorities in Moscow and the
communist party, U.S.A."
Remember, this wa, was me. the oro'ner
Gerhart Eisler drew living allowance
in New York from the joint anti-fascist
refugee committee Howard Fast COM
munist writer was sentenced to jail and
| fined for refusing to give the Thomas com
nittee information about this Front. MRS.
Roosevelt gratuitously gave puphcity 10
book by Fast and she invited to dlnner at
the White House a naturalized Yugoslav
named Louis Adamic who exploited that
socio-political episode into book OF the
same name ridiculing Winston Church1ll,
fellow guest, particularly in regard to BRIT
| aims Balkan policy. Adamlc's social status
| with Eleanor the Great IS SHOWN ny MS
| inclusion in this party organized in the presi-
Dental mansion of the United States os-
tensibly to honor the British Prime Minis
| ter but actually to heckle and ridicule him.
| Adamic physical giant, was a non -oell!g-
erent partisan of Marshall Tito, VINO sig
nalized his debt to the American hberators
of Yugoslavia by slaughterlng I'VE @ u.larreu' ~
| ,lnwarv American fliers. Tito's return to
Yugosiavia from his safe exile in Russia
! was financed by the joint anti-fasclst re1u-
gee committee When American boys were
| bombing the Nazi out of his native land'
Mrs. Roosevelts friend, Adamlc, was WIN
| them in spirit, but his feet were unoer the
| table at 1900 Pennsylvania avenue, WASH
| ington, G.
| When Gerhart was being examined by
the immigration men at Ellis Island IN
June. l94l, and swearing that ne was not
a communist, brother Hams, admitted 10
our country through. the interference o.
Eleanor the Great, had the effontery to
testify for him. Why not? The DUMP Amerl-
cans would believe anything.
| Among other statements, Hams sald ne
| was employed as professor OF music
at the new School of Social Research. Inc
good faith of this school in this narDor-
ing of an international parasite ana re
ouent pilgrim to Moscow was touched upon
bv Donald T. Appel, an investigator for the
Thomas committee, last September. Mr.. Ap-
nell is an exert in the mysteries OF accounts
who served as captain in the finance corps
of the Army and in the bureau OF the Duo-
get. x ;o,+;,.+or
said the purpose Of Appelrs testimony was
to show that Hams Eisler's position as
professor was a subterfuge for the pur-
pose of permitting him to stay mere Wlth-
out true legal justification:
A letter was introduced from Sumner
Welles, under-secretary OF state 70 hieailoi'
It said the department now had definite IN
formation that Hams was not professor
| of music abroad within the letter and spirit
of the law Therefore he could not enter
the United States in non-quota status
Hams, on his part, not only claimed 10
l., IF fhn M
posers of the ages. but an artist may l
add of international reputation"
| But when his merits were boiled down ne
was found to be just panhandling music
teacher. And, against his name, notWltn-
standing Eleanor's interventlon,, a sum
State Department read: "the evidence es-
tablishes preponderantly that Eisler is a
communist"
Mr.. Appel slashed through the
new schools accounts and exposed
"Hanns Eisler scholarship fund.- as a pre-
| text to create a false estimate of Eisler's
| stature.
Doctor johnson, the president of the new
school," with the apparent purpose
| of qualifying Eisler as non-quota visa
applicant, changed his status from iectur-
| er in music to professor of music" Mr..
| Appel said.
doctor Johnson stated that the new
school and it's students were so enthuslaS-
| tic over his work that they wanted him to
remain permanently the witness continu-
ed. Therefore, the appointment committee
authorized the president to extend five
year appointment which was prompted by
| the overwhelming enthusiasm of the school
and it's students, l should like to refer to
the pay cards and attendance records. In
two courses conducted by Eisler from Oct.
S, 1895, to Jan. 49, 1886, no more than eight
students attended the course on musical
composition Only three attended the
course on the crisis of modern music He
received only $100 for lecturirg four months
and this was paid from the Eisler scholar
/ cl,; IL, Ell, GA W these