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CC OUNTERATIACK — fans. U.S. Par. Orr. FACTS®TOBCOMBATB COMMUNISM 2 WET 2 ETREET, Mere yor te, N.Y. Lfeescen 6.1008 = eee 6 Sere ws Sees were Letter No. 140 January 27, 1950 Dear Subscriber: - COMMUNISTS AND APPEASERS START CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT HISS VERDICT. They're misrepresenting facts about the trial in an effort to whitewash Hiss. The Communist Party cries out that-"the Hiss trial was rigged by men who want to outlaw the peace movement in our America”. This refers to the fake "peace" movement which Moscow has created to sabotage U S defense. The CP (Communist Party) links the Hiss verdict to recent convio— - tion of 11 of its leaders for plotting against the Govt. It declares: ‘“Ta- king off from the Foley Square frame-up,” (meaning the conviction of the ll party leaders) "the ‘inevitable war' mob in Washington will see in the Hiss verdict the opportunity to press the outlawing of the Communist Party." And the Progressive or Commugressive Party's unofficial national newspaper, the Compass, has begun a campaign of violent denunciation of the ; Hiss verdict, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the FBI. . ; ; Mrs Pleanorfoosevelt has made & queer statement in defense of her friend Algcssucs, who ured to he s White House visitor, She says Alger Hiss may be guiity oi perjury but not of espionage. At first glance this doesn't seem to make any sense, because Hiss was convicted of perjuring himself in DENYING espionage. Bit eee Mee Basseyel? making & vailed allusion to something alas... gut Woo MIS NVUSEVGL. Wong, Fee Se eee ee wake, to a story spread around by money-raisers for the Alger Hiss defense? | Large sums have been collected, especially from Hiss' fellow alumni of Harvard Law School. And the story told by the money-raisers is that Hiss ' has confidentially admitted he perjured himself but has said he did it to \ protect somebody else, who really typed the State Dept documents. Is Mrs Roosevelt trying to spread that wild yarn? If she is, let her come out and say so. At any rate her statement needs explaining. /00- 3S0S/a S93 “