The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-09-07
Along the Potomac
to Washington
By J. Glenn Beall
Congressman Sixth District

One more Communist has recanted.
mittee on Un-American Activities at
the insistence of Congressman Rich
ard Nixon, Lee FRESHMAN admitted
he was member of the Communist
Party at the time he held high legal
position with the Agriculture Adj
justment Administration in 1884.
Later Mr. Pressman was the legal
counsel for the CLIO and although he
stated he had broken with the Com
munst Party i'm 1885, he also stated
that his theological break did not
come until after the Korean war
started.
He named as fellow members John
j. Abt, chief of litigation for the
AAA; an assistant general counsel
for the WPA; chief counsel for the
Senate UaFollette) Civil Liberties
Investigation Committee in 1886 and
1897, and a special assistant to the
Attorney General in 1897 and 1898;
and Nathan Witt, also of AAA and
later general secretary of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board; as well
as Charles Kramer, who after selv-
ing with AAA was counsel to special
Senate Committees dealing with la
Dor problems.
These men were named by Whit
taker Chambers and Elizabeth Bent
ley as Communists as far back as
1913. No doubt there are other red
behring's" who will be uncovered in
time. FRESHMAN in his testimony be-
fore the House Committee, indicated
he did not want to tell more since he
said he did not approve of many of
the activities of the Committee and
of some of the things the FBI was
doing.
While our taxes in this country are
rising for defense spending so that
they amount to approximately $466
year for every man, woman and
child in this country or at the rate
of $37 a week for a family of four,
British firms are manufacturing and
selling machine tools needed for de-
Tense production to Soviet Russia.
Joseph Greenwood, chairman and
managing director Of the second larg-
est engineering firm in Britain said
his firm will be tied up for many
months fulfilling a $2,800,00O order
for Russia and that British firms
could not contribute any output for
Britain itself for three years. Win
ston Churchill, in a broadcast made
two weeks ago brought this subject
out into the open and criticized the
Labor Government for allowing this /
Great Britain is not the only
country shipping strategic materials
to the Reds. A tabulation prepared |
by the ECA fiscal and trade policy
division disclosed that in the fourth
quarter of 1919, the 16 countries |
participating in the Marshall Plan in
Europe shipped items of strategic |
value to the extent of $3.50, 236,000 to |
Russia and her satellites.
Figures for the first quarter of
1850 were incomplete but they dis
closed that Russia and her satellites
received $186,257, 900 in goods and
materials that are classed as stra-
tegic. Two weeks ago it was also dis
closed that Russia received a ship
ment from the United States sup
posedly destined for England and
transhipped there by them to Russia
of that most vital material, mangan-
csc, for the hardening of steel and
which we have been stockpiling
Among materials received by Russia
through the Marshall Plan countries
are crude and semi-finished steel,
electric generators, motors and ma
chinery.
Under The Dome
| participated in the celebration at
Gaitherburg on Labor Day when the