Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-03-24

Mrs ST. George Whether they also were vio-
lating or two laws-the Lobbying law and
the foreign agents resignation act - depends
upon whether they were being paid and by
whom.
If they were receiving no pay, they may
have been violating no law, although it is
possible that the lobby law would require Mrs.
Crane to register her expense payments from
Mrs ST. George.
Both Senator Malone and Mrs ST. George
denied to this correspondent any knowledge
of who was paying the lobbyists. Senator
Malone did not know whether they were be-
ing paid or not Mrs st. George said she as
sumed Mrs. Crane was being paid by some
one but she did not know who She said she
had inquired without finding out, even though
she had paid Mrs. Cranes travelling expenses
Another strange thing about this case is
that one of the headquarters of this lobby team
was an office in the National Press Building
with 81 gn on the door Industries West
Foundation" Inquiry of Senator Malone dis
closed that this was lobby organization for
which he worked before he was elected to the
Senate-that the lobby group is now inactive,
but still has enough money left to pay the
rent for the office He said he had been using
it for his research" office, and Crane worked
in it for him.
But many of Cranes letters to Senators
were written from this address in the press
building, with no hint that there was any con-
necton with Senator Malone The Nevada SEN
ator denied any knowledge of this fact. He said
he did not discover anything about the lobby
ing until last fall, that he warned Crane about
it, and they agreed to part company.
But while still on Malone's payroll, Crane
went to Germany between sessions last year.
He did not leave the Senator's payroll until
February Is this year. During the last month
of his employment he was very busy writing
lott he Of in,
the press building, lobbying against disman-
ting. A week or two before his employment
with Malone ended, Crane headed back to
Germany to join his wife who had been there
since middle, mber.
The Cranes not only lobbied in Congress;
Crane also lobbied at the White House. and
his wife with other powerful groups, includ-
ing Americans for Democratic Action. In work.
ing some areas such ADA, the Cranes did
not do the lobbying personally but sent an
Army colonel whose status in the lobby has
not yet been establiShed-but who apparently
was on someone's payroll.
The most important angle of this case is
where the money, if any, came from to fl
nance the Cranes trips and the Crane lobbying
campaign. Mrs st. George says Mrs. Crane was
crusader who believed in the cause for which
she was working, and may have done it with
out pay. But she admits she probably was be-
ing paid by someone.
Inc loDDy investigating committee was first
tipped that money for the lobbying was reach
ing the Cranes from the German cartelists,
through former Rep. Ham Fish, who was al
ways friendly with the fascist-minded groups
in America, and through his successor in Con-
gress-Mrs. st. George. But Mrs. st. George
denies any knowledge of salary payments to
Mrs. Crane.
There many sinister aspects to this
"inside lobby under the Capitol dome. They
include these:
1. To what extent is such lobbying done
by insiders in Congress, either members of
Congress or their representatives?
2. Is this loophole in the lobby regstra-
ton law, or are such lobbyists required to re-
gister under the law as it stands?
3. Who, if anyone, was paying the Cranes?
Were they violating the foreign agents regis
tration law?
4. To what extent have liberals in this
country been misled by false front propa-
ganda campaign conducted by German cartel
lists and nazi sympathiZers?
The answers to these questions can only be
provided by the House Lobby Investigating
committee, with its power of subpoena, as
both Cranes are now in Germany.