Evening star., 1954-12-14
House Un-Americon Probers
To Ask Justice Action Against
New York Neo-Foscist Group
Says Party Urges
Violence; Hate
Publication Hit
By 1. Edqor Primo

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The House Committee on Un-
American Activities, in hard
hitting preliminary" report on
neo-Fascist and hate groups in
America, will call on the Justice
Department to invoke the Smith
Act against one Of them, 1t was
learned today.
Main target of the report,
which is expected to be released
officially in a few days. is the
National Renaissance Party.
Terming this group, located in
New York, clearly subversive
and un-American," the report
asserts:
1.-THE committee is further of
the opinion that this neo-
Fascist organization, by its advo-
cacy of force and violence,
contravenes the Smith Act. The
committee urges the Department
of Justice to take immediate
steps to convene Federal grand
jury for the purpose of prose-
cutting the National Renaissance
Party under the act"
The report is the first on the
subject by a congressional body
since before World War II when
the German American Bund
and the Christian Front were in
their heyday. It also Is believed
to be the first official call for
prosecution of an extreme
right-wing group under the
Smith Act.
Attack Common Sense.
A second target of the commit
tee is the publication, Common
Sense, labeled a clearinghouse
for hate propagandists through
out the country"
The anti-JeWish, anti-Negro
paper Is further denounced as a
vehicle for the exploitation of
ignorance, prejudice and fear"
The committee says that the
Temperance, Of the avowedly
Fascist organization on the
American scene is marked by the
formation in January, 1949. Of
the National Renaissance Party,
headed by a young fanatic
from Beacon, N. Y"
According to the report, the
Renaissance Party promotes this
nine-point program virtually
borrowed wholesale from Fascist
and Nazi dictators" from its
Office ir. the German Yorkville
section of Manhattan:
Abolition of parliamentary
government in the United States
in favor of government by a
trained elite; establishment of
a Fascist corporate economy;
encouragement of racial pride;
preservation of the white Aryan'
race by gradual deportation of
the 'unassimilable'; and the de-
nial to the Jewish people of citi-
zenship, professional and political
posts and the right of inter-
marriage"
Defended Red Purge.
While the NRP considers itself
anti-Communist it agreed with
the Kremlin when the Soviet
leaders purged the Jews in
Prague in 1852. 1.-THE NRP
actually defended the action of
the Soviet leadership and i'm
piled that the example should
be followed in Europe and Amer
ica," the report says.
This group. which tries to
maintain a uniformed elite
guard in the NaZi style-sub-
stituting a lightning bolt for the
swastika, also refers to the Com
munist regimes "superbly eff
cient economic system"
The committee says that
the actual strength of the party
Is difficult to gauge. Estimates
have run anywhere from 200 to
700 members and indications are
that it has slipped this year.
Such anatics exaggerate their
influence. and the committee
would do no service in overesti-
mating the Importance of an
element which will undoubtedly
take pride in being publicized as
a menace" the report states.
The group holds street corner
meetings in seasonable weather.
private meetings In hotel rooms
and homes and publishes a MINI
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