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Danny Kaye — Part 2
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_ Connuntat front in the defense of Comnuniste and Connunt st
. fellow travelers. Its tunediate purpose ts to create favorable
~ publte eptnaton for. the Connuntsts who refused to testify before —
1... the House Committee on Un-dmertcan 4otivities tn Washington, D.C.
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o.° .-e She “Datly Yorker,” on east coast Connuntst newspoper,
dated October 30, 1947, contatned a news artiole concerning a
- “Stop Censorshtp” aceting which wae to be held on October 30,
1947, at the Interncttonal Theater, Columbus Circle, Yew York,
Hew Tork, The purpose of thts meeting, according to the article,
was to protest the "House UneAnertcan” hearings which were being
conducted tn Washington, D, C. The arttele continued to etate
that at this meeting there would be a playback of the "Civil
Liberties" broadcast made from Hollywood, Caltfornta, -on the
previous Sunday tn whitch wovte stars spoke on behalf of the
witnesses who had been subpoenaed to testify before the House
Countttee on Une-hnerican Activities. The arttele stated that
this broadecst included Danny Kaye. ,
"The Worker," a weekly Communist east coast publication,
on November 9, 1947, contained a newae article concerning a radto
show put on the previous Sunday by the Committee for the First
d4mendment, which broadcast protested the methods of the House
On-Amertoan Activities Committee. This article stated thct
Danny Kaye told of his trip to Washington with. the 26 members
of the Comntttee for the First Amendment.
a Aceording to the "Daily People's World," San Francisco,
California, dated June 9, 1949, Danny Kaye wos among those cited
by the California Senate Committee on Un-American Activities as
"typtoal of the indiutduals wtthin the vartous Stalinist orbits
about whose activities and Stalinist programs and causes, this.
Comutttee has presented factual reports or has taken sworn
evidence.” —
a The "Datly Worker” of April 18, 1951, contained a column
entitled "hy Are They Silent Today?," which wos written by
‘David Platt. In thts column Platt mentioned that during 1927 the
- Committee for the First Amendment wos formed and representutives
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