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me ee fin ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION WITH HCUA INVESTIGATION OF COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD The "Daily Worker" of October 27, 1947, carried a news article concerning a broadcast heard over the American Broadcasting Company network on October 26, 1947, which protested the investigation of Communism in Hollywood. According to this article, Sinatra announced his support for this broadcast but did not state that he had participated in it. "Daily Worker", October 27, 1947, Pages 2, 10. 100-13 8754-A According to a news article on October 25, 1947, Frank Sinatra was one of a group of numerous movie personalities who would participate on a radio broadcast on November 22, 1947, which had been arranged by the Committee for the First Amendment. This broadcast, which was scheduled to be heard over Washington Station WMAL, was called "Hollywood Fights Back" and was part of a program protesting the investi- gation of Communism in Hollywood by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Washington Star", October 25, 1947, Page 1 100-138754-A. The Committee for the First Amendment was described by the California Committee on Un-American Activities in its 1948 report, page 210, as "a recently created Communist front in the defense of Communists and Communist fellow travelers. Its immediate purpose is to create favorable public opinion for the Commnists who refused te testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington, De C." CONTACTS WITH RUSSIAN CONSULATE OFFICIALS On March 13, 1945, Frances Damon of the American Youth for a Free World, supra, contacted Captain Orest Shavtzov, representative in tha United States for the Youth Anti-Fascist Committee in Moscow who was then at the Russian Consulate in New York City, and informed her that all pictures would be taken the following day. The Captain was advised that she should be in her office at 11:15 A. M. in uniform and that the first picture would be taken with Newbold Morris, President of the City Council of New York, and the secong picture would be taken with Frank Sinatra at 2:30 P. M. on March 14, 1945. ey > Pe 47 100-304487-23, Pe Ge ; 123