Evening star., 1953-03-16

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sive Activities Control Board,
which has spent more than two
years studying Moscow's orders
to American Communists, shows
how Stain accomplished the
dethronement of Browder behind
the olive branch Of world peace.
The setting was the famed San
Francisco conference in the
spring of 1945 when the Rus
slams arrived at the peak of the
era of good feelings to found
the United Nations.
No sooner did he arrive in San
Francisco than Dimitri Fam
Manuilsky. Ukranian delegate to
the U. N. and former Comintern
boss, exploded to fellow Reds
over the fact that the Ameri-
can Communist leaders were not
attacking the United States with
sufficient vehemence.
A letter containing his views
went to The Daily Worker, where
it served as a Stain order to
open the petcocks of vitupera-
ton against this Government.
Browder Preached Old Doctrine.
It was of a price with the criti-
cism of the American Red
leadership by Jacques Duclos,
French Communist chief. The
trouble with Browder was that
he had swallowed Stalin's s
temporary propaganda line and
was preaching the now out
moded theme that the class
struggle could best he served by
Communist cooperation with its
capitalist enemies.
In essence, the Duclos and
Manuilsky attacks constituted q
two-way Stain purge directive
against Earl Browder, who was
deposed as general secretary OF
the American branch of the
party and pounded out Of Com
munist grace by the big Red guns
from abroad.
BY the election year of 1948
Stain wanted no fooling or
the part Of American Reds. With
the shadow Of atomic war ovel
the world, William z. Foster
for more than two decades Sta.
Inns favorite among American
Communists, appeared before ar
Ohio Communist convention
William Garfield Cummings, ar
FBI plant in the party, testified
that Foster urged the Commu.
nists to pick only leaders of Ger.
tain loyalty to Russia because
OF the war danger between the
two countries.
Reds Tightened Security.
This was the year that tn,
Communists grabbed control Of
Henry A. Wallace's Progressiv,
party to the dismay Of Wallace
old friends who watched tn,
former vice president maneuD
vered by the Reds. Behind tn.
scenes. however, the Commu.
nists were closing ranks ever
tighter. To increase security. tn,
Reds ordered all members intt
cells Of no more than i've.
In the fall Of the year Whit,
taker Chambers, the reformet
Red, burst on the scene with hi
sensation charge that Alge
Hiss. former State Department
omcial, had been a Communist
When Federal investigator,
sought J. Peters In connection
with the Hiss case, the Re.
underground hid the Cominter1
agent, first in the Bronx, then il
Brooklyn and finally on a farm
near Riegelsville, Pa, accordin,
to testimony Of John Lautner
q Communist from 1929 to 1856
At last in the spring Of 1949
after years as a secret Sovie
agent here. Peters fed to Hun.
gary, where an American Com,
muniSt saw him a few month
later at a Red youth festival IL
Budapest.
Radio Network Planned.
Stain, according to testimon,
before the board, ordered Ameri
can Communists to take rigit
security precautions in thes
years when Congress and tn
courts sired an increasing mum
ber Of Investigations of the Reds
At the MarxiSt institute in Lo
Angeles, students were forbidden
to refer to each other except b,
secret number system.
Reds destroyed membership
cards. Communists in New Yorl
received orders to burn all mes
sageS containing names, ad
dresses and phone numbers a
soon as received.
Communists in the Summe
Of 1949 planned installation O
Nationwide clandestine radi
network for Reds only, accord
ing to the hearing panel. Part
leaders summoned radio "hams
from the Communist ranks an,
spotted hiding places for mbbil
transmitters, concealing the prof.
ect from the Federal Communi
cations Commission.
Again under Moscow order.