Show Bruc Bru karts charts washington digest investigation of un american activities in U S bearing fruit gives new perspective on foreign influences at work in our midst shows how our citizens are used to promote ends of dictatorship by WILLIAM BRUCKART service national press washington D C washington the long and sometimes wearisome investigation by the special house committee on un american activities headed by rep martin dies of texas has begun to bear fruit it is not yet clear whether all of the fruit will be good but there surely is reason to believe that even with some of that fruit slightly decayed a great deal has been accomplished that will be helpful in retaining america for americans I 1 have a feeling that when the committees work finally is brought to a close most of us will have a new perspective on the foreign influences fluen ces that have been at work in our midst we will know more about the isms iams that have been transported to our shores and spread among us under organization names that are designed wholly to conceal the purposes of a controlling clique which gains its strength and its money to a considerable extent from foreign lands for another thing it is now evident that whatever else the dies committee has done it has disclosed how thoroughly easy it is for a few rat eyed scheming foreigners to feed upon american resources and use our citizens to promote the ends of dictatorship moreover the testimony thus tar far taken has shown how these weasels operate the methods they use the testimony has brought out the fact again that one of the simplest things in the world is to organize americans some vague promises delivered with oratorical fervor citation of some wrongs and theories for correcting them stated only in generalities and a group of active organizers working for pay that is what you have to have to organize in the united states and the tragedy of it is that thousands of individuals will part with coin for this great movement or that one without knowing that the leaders are using the membership only for whatever crooked purposes will serve their own interests activities of nazis and communists in U S revealed the committee has been attacked threatened even president roosevelt characterized some of its operations as a a sordid procedure members of the groups whose history and purposes have been laid bare have shouted their heads off about unfairness and injustice but I 1 repeat the dies committee has served a useful purpose and the public should remember that the stuck pig squeals the loudest let us look back over the record recerd it shows that the german american bund is a tool of the nazi leaders if not directly of the german government it shows that communists have been and are operating in countless cells in the united states and because of the record the committee made earl Brow browder def the boss communist in the united states slates is under indictment charged with having forged passports that enabled him to make frequent trips to russia without the facts being known it shows also that there are numerous organizations in this country which are simply the of the communist party of russia it appears there is more scandal more evidence of violation of law yet to come largely because of the committe committees ess exposures there ably will be prosecutions of various foreigners or officials of so called american organizations because they have failed to comply with our law they have not registered with the department of state showing their connections with foreign governments ern ments or foreign groups in addition to all of these the committee has made a ghastly expose of communists within the offices of our own government it published the names of persons on the government payroll who are members of the american league for peace and democracy with the assertion that part of them at least were avowed communists publication of names considered grave mistake r publication of the list stirred official washington it was an action that was undoubtedly a grave mistake because anyone can examine the list and find victims of the racketeering organizers persons who were misled persons who believed they were serving a sincerely fine purpose many of them are likely to lose their jobs in the government minor clerks messengers stenographers because of their alleged connection with an outfit whose motives unknown to most of the members were designed to destroy our form of government it was about this action that president roosevelt spoke although it has been known for months that he had little respect for the dies committee program chairman dies undoubtedly deserves censure for publication li of the entire list common ordinary horse sense ought to have shown him and his committee that only a comparatively small number of those people were guilty it would have been so easy to have rooted out the real crooks and no one could have had sympathy for them but the others were just victims and ought to have been treated as such in other words this bad mistake by the dies committee has done much to nullify the good it has done otherwise I 1 am hopeful that the department of justice will be forced into the position where the real leaders behind the scenes will be kicked out of their government jobs from which they have been promoting destruction but leniency is called for with respect to those other stupid but sincere individuals who make up the majority of the list their only blame is that they were so gullible that they did not attempt to find out who was behind the great movement 0 operations pe rations are directed from moscow and berlin but how bow did the russian operate to get into these various organizations and promote its nefarious schemes toward world revolution in a so called intelligent race of people here the processes according to the testimony by browder and others before the committee were very simple the american communist party sends delegates to the communist internationals ale in moscow decisions are made by the moscow group browder explained that the delegates came back with these decisions and policies but he described them as only voluntary agreements between the americans and russians the americans were not compelled to observe the russian made rules or follow russian made orders according to browder but the head communist in this country was squeezed into a corner by committee questions and finally explained that it was customary tor for american members of the party to modern madonna F THIS DANCER hortense dolan of new york city won ivon a recent contest sponsored by the masterpieces of art exhibition at the world s fair the contest was ivas held to select a modern woman who most nearly resembled the painted by the old masters part company with the group when they I 1 failed ailed or refused to agree with the imported schemes and thus voluntary action was forced action directed from moscow as far as I 1 can understand words american fuehrer kuhn of the german american bund appears to have had something of the same system he nevertheless insisted before the committee that his organization had no connection with the nazi party leaders and was not guided in any way by them this statement was made despite testimony some from kuhn himself that he had many close contacts in berlin and that he had made recent visits to adolph hitler there has been considerable suspicion that both browder and kuhn have many men and women in their organization who can be described only as racketeers that is to say they have numerous workers who are fully aware of the general purposes but who are willing to engage in the movement solely because they have well paying jobs within the ranks which in my opinion rates them as completely dirty crooks confidential information available to foreigners but to get back to the dies committee list of alleged communists or fellow travelers within the government itself those of us who have been in constant contact with individuals in various official capacities recognize the dangers that are inherent in their situations 1 I for one am genuinely fearful of them any government worker comes into possession of vast quantities of highly confidential information it is information that belongs to you and to me and to others because we are compelled by law to supply to the government all records and facts which the government seeks it is not information that belongs to any one government employee or official and that person has no right to use it or disclose it to others except as the laws require I 1 believe therefore it does not take a vivid imagination to see how such information can be used destructively by one of the rats who secretly owes allegiance to the soviet or the nazis or to the fascists of italy america long has proceeded upon faith if that faith is breached between individuals our laws and our courts are available for correction for damages for enforcement of rights but what I 1 ask are any of us going to do when within the offices of the government itself there are concealed men and women who descend below the level of common thieves and secretly supply facts about our nation to foreigners whose purpose is to destroy us who knows but that this sort of thing goes on within our army and our navy |