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Show 2! 0i Mkged Affiliations - 'av night at 8:00, syndicated columnist Max " Doke at the Assembly Hall in Salt Lake City. ,jr'f the afternoon, Lerner was at Brigham Young for a speaking engagement. The fact that he ''the Salt Lake neighborhood for speeches is not what us however. What does bother us is that the ' -: us for Conservative Action on this campus held a ''''fv Thursday afternoon at which a sheet of paper "Know Your Speaker Max Lerner" was dis-ti dis-ti to the members. " ' indications at that meeting were that the papers 1 be passed out to the public in an effort to keep .blic informed at the major speech in the Assembly ?i?about Max Lerner. ""The message concerning Lerner covered two sides ii'Ie yellow (and we do mean yellow) sheet of paper. i"ts like this are not a new occurrence. They happen 1 1 ''r time and come from both sides of the radical po- '"-i fence. This one came from the Citizens Information m. rjttee, a group known for a strong right-wing affilia- --n This 'group, by the way, is the same that supported H ."jiar information sheet which was passed out last k -;a Vhen Joan Baez appeared at the Tabernacle, tort i ' TV Citizens Information Committee has dug back fc the particularly anxious years of the late 1930's and 'iijl Fascism had been waging its wars since 1932, lafc 1, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. The Italians lste -fending that 2,000 years was plenty long enough be-hil be-hil -a empires invaded Ethiopia in 1935. By the time Mi :i the Spanish Revolution (1936), Fascism was a blood-'pki blood-'pki .jron reality in Europe (Italy and Germany), Africa "liiopia), and Asia (Japan, Manchuria and Korea). "I But some hyperpatriots in this country don't a to realize that idealism is not necessarily part of the Vemational Communist Conspiracy. The earliest date given of Mr. Lerner's alleged affili- 3 with the International Communist Conspiracy is wtfcj S!5, when he was affiliated with the Friends of the d :;nish Loyalists. Franco led a revolution against the leTa Wist government with considerable aid from both Ger-tns Ger-tns any and Italy. (That fact of Blitzkreig which Hitler r cployed to blast Poland into submission in 1939 dive-Mts dive-Mts thing- was nothing new to the Luftwaffe. German ;its in German Stukas received much of their education A iainst Spanish Loyalist villages.) Deafc We would ask our friends on the Citizens Information uJo!. 'smittee if, in the 1930's, it was a greater felony to iir ife at out against Facism than to think and say nothing 3 te : at the matter. Lest our friends forget, World War II K: I id have resulted in a world-wide Fascist empire had at been for Communist commitment to the Allies. ,giir The greatest American political anomaly of the early TMe : was Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Those people who out against McCarthy and his Red-Witch-hunt ;0n immediately opening themselves to a strange breed the A;- 0: censorship: "sympathizer." Mr. Lerner was no friend I 'Karthism, and his lack of friendship was no secret jus readers. Again, we would ask our friends on the ;ms Information Committee if speaking out against -"irship is necessarily synonomous with Communism. Jlie paper takes a series of unrelated and out-of-Jt quotes, with no formal substantiation, linking the in question with supposed Communist front organi--j s. Oddly enough all the quotes are dated between and 1949. It is now 1966. Perhaps in 17 years, con- ' nge, At least we think they have from the Second . ar period to the present. Situations have indeed J fortunately we live in a country where it is legal tional right t0 have freedom of speech and "i 1 -lu press but these freedoms sometimes are 1- yhandbills of this sort. H0I! COnf der the Citizens Information Committee's "B onMr. Lerner as an invalid set of "proofs." . .. Jaybe we're dupes ... We haven't put much i f J ekh'S alliSations that Eisenhower is Jhe "Communist Conspiracy," either. |