The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-11

i've before the Tydings and McCarran committees,
was subjected to a flood of Scathing attacks from
certain senators the floor of the United States
Senate. This bound to encourage the COM
mnntSt conSptrdcg-dS ii did.
In October, so pleased were the conspirators with
the aid they had received this that offic
ial statement of the national committee of the com
muniSt party issued on the subject Published IN
Political Affairs of that month IL declared. THE
present Washington exposures Of the stool pigeon
Budenz who the star witness for the govern
ment at Foley Square against the communist leaders,
will soon show him 10 be unworthy of credence.
On Record
AS with all official declarations of the national
committee OF the conspiracy, this was an order to
ertend these exposures" AS matter of fact
there had been There had been the fctions Gre
ated by syndicated coumnlst for the New York
Herald Tribune, Joseph Asop, in defense of SerV
i've and John Carter Vincent, both of whom had
stood for policies helpful TO Red China The records
of The proceedings OF the McCarran Subcommittee
Internal Security they come off the press, with
testimony and documents, will confirm this state
ment.
II will be recalled that Alsop had charged me
with contradictory testimony on Service before the
Tydings and McCarran Committees This was the di-
rect opposite of what had taken place Indeed, be-
fore the latter body, | had been able to introduce
documents about Service including hectic defense
of him by The Daily Worker at the time OF his
arrest in the Amerasa case, and praise for him by
the Red organ for the policies he advanced in the
State Department This not only confirmed but
strengthened such testimony as | was permitted 10
give on Service before the committee headed by
Mllard TydingS in 1850.
Opportunity Knocks
The communist leaders showed delight In the non
communist attack on the testimony Of the exReds,
because il served their wider purposes The national
committee of the conspiracy uses this Iumpng-oit
place to assa the United States Supreme Court
for its decision against the eleven communist lead
ers THE Supreme Court" states the Red order of
October thus Identifies itself with the infamous
frameup of the Bill of Rights"
The opportunity Is given the Red high command
here-beeause of the assaults on the ex-communlsts
Ito identify "fascism' with any effort to curb the
conspiracy. BY hitchng this propaganda onto AlSop
utteranceS and others like them, the Reds reach
a rider audience vith the idea that the ciUii no
critics OF all Americans are inDolUed IN any m0ue
to curb Stalin's fifth column
The signal for this type of propaganda was given
in September, 1850, by Alexander Bittelman CHIEF
theoretician of the Communist Party and Soviet
subject who has enjoyed the right" to undermine
the American government for years without inter
ference until recently. AT that time Bittelman de
clared any effort to curb the conspiracy to be "a
consolidation of police state rule" He added thai
"the decision of the Court of Appeals ton the clever
communist leaders later 10 be upheld by the Su
preme CourD was made with an eye to Strengthening
Wall Streets war of Intervention in Korea and it'
drive for world domination"
In Strange Places
This would seem absurd, coming from an illega
alien in this country who has constantly served
Soviet Russia the center of present world aggres
sion. II Is doubly absurd when the unprovoked as
Saut on South Korea by the Reds is pictured a.
American Intervention" But survey Of the secular
press will show that these ideas break out in strange
places in a slightly different form and language
The Daily Worker accordingly, reports tha
the Bittelman-made propaganda Is working. One o
the latest announcements IN the Red organ, on De
cember i6, tells that THE Americans for Democrats
Action are moving against the Smith Act" This i
the Act under which the eleven communist leader
we're convicted. Il also announced with satisfaction
that Federal Judge William c. Matthias of Los Ar
gces had nullified the California indictments unde
that Act The comrades elated BY these epents
Thus, the non-communstS smear the ex-eon.nur
lists who testify for the government under subpoen
Is bearing fruit for Stains agents II is to be note
that none of those who defended Service by thes
tactics has apologized to the American people 70
the deceit practlced on them, that the Loyat
Review Board has declared that gentleman's Ioyslt
to be of reasonable doubt"