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eo. - . f zoe Of 6 LS —* mineographed bulletin announcing that it ds reprinting in full the Soviet disarmanent proposals as placed before the United Nations, the l2-page, well- printed reprint itself (in pamphlet fore), and an announcement of a Council discussion at the Cornish Arms Hotel in New York City. Guest speakers for the discussion, which is. about coexistence, are listed as the Rey. Willian Howand-Melish, whose record of Communist front affiliation is long and wel? known and Kunre-@oshal, touted recently in the Daily Worker as “a well known authority on colonialisn." nn i is the paper whose editor, CedrigAelfrage, identified as a Soviet agent . and is now under a deportation order. It also ig the paper through “which the Red Chinese, during the Korean war, released Aperican prisoner of war lists which, in turn, were used to bring pressure against fanilies of POWs for "peace" statements. Ina letter to “friends” of the paper, it is revealed that “you have probably read between the lines (of published Guardian fund appeals) that our situation is more critical than we tare to say in the columns of the paper." The-Wational Guardian. ‘This Peltiete eae ade spreader of the Party line The most critical part of the picture, the appeal explains, is a $9,000 revolving debt to the printer of the paper. About the possibly significant extent of lawyers fees to fight the case of the paper's Soviet-aligned editor; there is not a single word. A special reason for needing the money is explained as the job of "get- ting out a much-needed paper, which costs lots more than its 6 cents a week cubseription price {but whose nrirce muat ha kept) down to reach new raadershin whose price ch new readers cheaply “and easily. " In return for support, the paper offers visions of great things to come, ad quickly. “This summer ahead," the fund appeal states. “is the most prom- ising one in years, for peace, for exposing and ending the informer racket, for getting back on the track of the New Deal.” New York Committee for Protection of Foreign Born. As a key segment of the nationwide Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, the New York group is trying to raise $2,000 as its part of a national quota to pay the bills for opposing designation of the committee as a Communist front by the Sub- versive Activities Control Board. . Actually, the hearings would only put the final legal cap on a designa- tion that already has been officially and frequently earned by the committee. Tne Special Committee on Un~American Activities of the House of Representa- fos = Sem bee oe IGAA widened th aan ts, a5 far back as 1544 cited the committees as “one of the oldest suzili- aries of the Communist Party..." Attorney General Clark, in 1948, cited the group as "subversive and Communist". The California state committee on un- American activities has similarly characterized it. Despite this, as pointed out by this newsletter on March 18, this Com munist front continues to attract such supporters as Mrs. Franklin.Roosevelt who, earlier this year, wrote that she had and was continuing to give money to the group up until this year. - . The key charges that the committee says it now wants to fight with the money it is soliciting are: that it defended the Soviet agent Gerhart Eisler: