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a a J. FRANK DOBIE, ACLU National Committee member was mentioned as A ros . ‘soe. ss VAN WYCK BROOKS_is another ACLU National Committee member. The Firing Line of August 1, 1955 reported that BROOKS had been affiliated with 28 subversive organizations. He has supported the American Committee For Democracy and Intellectual Freedom; League of American Writers; Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and was listed as a Contributing Editor to the Communist periodical New Masses. BROOKS was listed as a Vice Chairman of the Progressive Citizens of America and Director of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. (See HUAC, Appendix Ix, 1944, pages 331, 976 and 1648; "Congressional Record", 10-20-42; and HUAC, Testimony of Walter S. Steele Regarding Communist Activities In The United ‘States, 1947, pages 147 and 148). woe nme an STUART CHASE, ACLU National Commit tee member has been affiliated with the following subversive organizations: American Committee To Save ” Refugees; Russian Reconstruction Farms, Inc:; Public Use of Arts Committee; Consumers National Federation; Descendants of the American Revolution and Friends of the Soviet Union. In 1948, CHASE signed a letter denouncing the Thomas Committee (House Committee On Un-American Activities) on behalf of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a "Communist front for writers, artists and musicians." (See HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, pages 362,472, 584, 659, 689 and 759; California Legislature, Fourth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding — Committee on Un-American Activities, 1948,:page 330; and HUAC, Guide To Subversive Organizations and Publications In The United States, 1951, page 84). RUFUS_.E.. CLEMENT, ACLU National Committee member and an incorporator of the Southern Regional Council, has been affiliated with the following sub-. versive organizations: American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual “Freedom, American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and the American Council on Soviet Relations. He was an Executive Board member of the Southern Conference For Human Welfare, sponsored the Scientific and Cultural Conference “for World Peace in 1949 and was affiliated with the Progressive Citizens of ~- America. (See "The New York Times", 10-17-55; HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, pages 331, 349, 369 and 1585; and HUAC, Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference For a 1949, pages 33 and 58). GEORGE §. COUNTS, another ACLU National Committee member was reported €0 have been affiliated with 13 subversive organizations according to the February 1, 1955 issue of The Firing Line, page 15. According to page 9 of the subversive American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born's 1953 pamphlet entitled The Walter-McCarran Law, COUNTS was named as having made the following statement before the President's Commission on Immigration .and Naturalization in October 1952: “Under a fresh and wholesome approach to immigration, permanent-resident aliens and naturalized citizens - except for cases of fraud or illegal entry - would no longer be subjected to the archaic and anachronistic penalty of deportation which also should be eradicated from our immigration laws. vo Sele a having cooperated With The Civil Rights Congress campaign "directly aimed —Seainst the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities and in opposition to all legislative efforts to destroy Communist forces in the United States."' The Civil Rights Congress is now a defunct subversive organization. In 1950, DOBIE sponsored the National Conference to Defend the Bill of Rights which was held under the auspices ot the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and was also affiliated with the Committee of One Thousand in 1948. DOBIE also sponsored the subversive Mid-Century