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FD-216 100=78687-113 ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE Date of Activity Agent to File Number or Description Date whom _ where Received Furnished _ Located. bat wr mano by: ed dated 7/8/46 RE: INDEPENDENT CIT COMMITTEE FOR ARTS, SCIENCES AND PROFESSIONS Is - 6 b "Att herewith are two copies of report of Confidential Nantional Defense 2. rntoramntilp 2c:23 May 17,1946 regarding a rally held at Madison Square Garden b?P sponsored by the abovd committee....." The report is quoted in part as follows: "On May 16 the Veterans Council of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions sponsored a rally at Madison Square Garden. The speakers were Walter Bemstein, former correspondent of Yanks; Marion Hargrove, commander of the Duncan-Peris Post, American Legions Russell Nixon, Washington representative of the UB; Tom Neil, veterans director of the UE......+FRANK SENATRA AND Gene Kelly, actor, Who presideds....++s. Problems of housing, racial and religious tolerance end jobs were raised by other speakers with varying emphasis, SINATRA concluded his plea for tolerance with the almost perfect non sequitur: "Tolerance also means the right of the Chinese people to decide for themselves the kind of government they want." Franco's regimes came in for its share of lumps, toae".sseeee “a “a : : 6 foow Ae TO en ee a ee Am ae a AE I ON PA Ea a Sn NN et ci bane RP ee oD el aa gam RD FA ACU at Ali RIS een Er ate eee —