Show Bridges Is Still a Menace e eHE THE THE HE ruling of Attorney General Biddle that 1 the communist party teaches the violent overthrow of the government that Harry Bridges was a member of the party and that therefore he should be deported to his native Australia is a significant decision For one thing it confirms the opinion held all along by many people in this c country that Bridges was a communist who owed his first 1 t. t allegiance to the hierarchy of the international international 1 communist organization and not to the F United States of America For another it proves that the government of the United States has not abandoned its opposition to the theories and practices of communism despite the fact that soviet Russia is our ally in the war war against Hitler It is well that we have not permitted our present relations with Russia to b becloud cloud our thinking and affect our judgment on the tie fundamental fundamental fun fun- menace to American institutions and traditions of the communist philosophy and of f those individuals who espouse it Harry Bridges was a menace to this country country country coun coun- try before the war The fact that Bridges is rumored to be cooperating per cent now r in the nations nation's war effort does not change the fundamental fact Rather it serves to emphasize emphasize emphasize em em- it Because the fact that Bridges changed so swiftly from opposition to cooperation cooperation cooperation co co- co- co operation in the war effort once soviet Russia became a foe of Hitler and an ally of the capitalistic capitalistic capitalistic capi capi- democracies Bridges has so often assailed as assailed assailed as- as a sailed merely gives further evidence that he 1 has consistently followed a communist party line line and and is therefore a communist first and an American second |