The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
AS Pegler Sees 1t
By WEsTBROOK PEGLEK
Downright, 1s47, BY King Features oSho-
cate, Inc)


r1Act11NcTON Nov. a. - The great
rl- ~ The House committee on un-Amerl-
o.n activities against some OF the MUS
-,,+b1ess traitors in the history OF patiio'
;s,,, ;e SLOWLY receiving recognition. AS 'ile
D;os committee for long, Illuminating years
under Roosevelt, and now, as the !Iloilae
ansaao;++ee this continuing inquiry mas
fo,oht against many unnecessary Halioi-
osns Rad newspaper reporters at1ectlng
cvnicism toward Congress unoer tne ~,
Ifiuence of Roosevelt, ofetn sneereo oue ioua ~
at the hearings under Martin Dles nc
should have had the CapitoPs sparrow cops
3hroU them out. Or better, he should nave
done it by hand, as in most cases: ne
could for painted eye in the halls OF one
nress club, autographed by Martin Dles,
would have been strong propaganda ioi
manners in the fourth Estate
Now the sentiment is changing. me
Thomas committee is winning fights with
the conspirators, victories over the hecA-
llers and the respect OF ethical newspaper
men. o
These committees count among their VIC
TINS the three most ruthless enemies OF
the United States in all issues win nus
sia that the Kremln could send against
nc They are Earl BroWder and Eugene
Dennis. who served the party as general
SeCr6taV, ana 1GIIldil A1AolSAJ
hateful migrate who came here, with MS
equally vicious brother, Hams, to escape
the German s-chambers. j. Edgar HooV-
or said Gerhart was the No. l communist
in our country. Hams is noisy Holly
wood parasite now in process OF removal
to Germany, too late for Hitler to gas hlnl'
II was for Hams that Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
welt, in her casually officious way, inter-
vened with the State Department wnen
we should have turned HIM over 10 the
Germans to dispose of however tney pleas
ed, in trade for one OF our traitors tnere.
The Dies committee got BroWder for a
passport fraud and the court gave MN
five wears. But Roosevelt thought he heard
clamor for Browder's release and turned
him loose. The whole, petulant purpose OF
this was to mock the Dies committee.
Dennis engaged in passport frauds and
ducked the draft. He got year TOT con
tempt of Congress and fine OF Sl.ooo.
He was released on bail and is still at
large, but the point is, the committee
caught him and licked him. II the Depart
ment of Justice can't make its convictions
stick, or doesn't want to try, that is an
other matter.
William Weiner, alias Welwel Warsower,
charter member of the party and de-
fiant enemy. was convicted with Browder.
Same Ola 1TlVO1lty, 1O1 Slll6 1AiAiNAA H>>oS
norts for use by Russian spies and dyna-
miters in Europe. Weiner never served
day of his sentence. He said he
had asthma. Last May day, traitor s
holiday. he walked three miles IN the New
York parade.
This year, Howard Fast of the New
York front but typical of the Hollywood
cells. and 16 others were convicted OF con-
tempt of Congress. They refused to turn
over the records Of. the joint antl-tasclst
refugee committee. Fast wrote pot-boll-
ing book in praise of Tito, the butcher OF
Yugoslavia, boasting that refugee money
was spent to set him up as Stains stooge.
It was shown that $3.50 month OF this
went to Gerhart Eisler, who got one year
and a $1,000 fine on one charge and is
convicted of another, good for five-and-five.
But he is still on bail and touring the
country, lecturing.
To the ignoram of the broadway rat
hole circuit who seem not to know what
they are doing, the case of the Josephsons
must have been surprise.
Louis j. Russell, the committees inves-
tigator, ten years a G-man swore that
Lucy Josephson, the wife of Leon, was CO.
owner of the liquor license of the New
York night club called Cafe Society Up
town. He said Icons brother, Barney
JOSephSOn, was an lncorpor ator OF the two
!; society cafes Uptown and Downtown. He
told more facts about brother Barney and
then he said brother Leon was pinched in
Copenhagen in 1885 and told the American
consul he considered the orders of his COM
rnunist central committee above any
. American law. And, finally, Russell testi-
fled, Ruth Bryan Owen, our ambassador
in Denmark, the appointee of Frank
lin Roosevelt, entertained Leon Josephson
sroyally'' when he got out OF the Danish
: jail.
Maybe we can get someone to establish
chair in a university to teach people
how to behave in theater-Helen Hayes