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cour peti According to the records of the Jumigration and Naturalization Service, Eisler first entered the United States on February 15, 1935, at New York City. He left May &, 1955, and again entered dotober 4, 1935, at New York City. He departed from the Tinited States in Deceshber, 19035 RBacarding hia firat trin wee 68 ee FS a & Vow Sg SAS ese ee Se " & the United States, 1% le noted thet according to a highly confidential source ' Bisler is mentioned in a Russian language article which appeared July 20, 1935, | . in the lesue "Boviet Art" published in the Soviet Union, fhe article quotes Eisler at length end is prefaced by a remark that Eisler's first words to the interviever upon arrival in Moscow were his impressions of the "new face of Moacow" and especially of the difference between it and what he saw in the capitelistis eountries, Eisler ie then quoted es saying he made a picture in” London entitled "Abdul the Damned." which was based on the furkieh Revolution. of 1908. He states that this picture included euch contemporary episodes as the anti-Soviet burning of union homes, the punishment of revolutionists, the * wnderground work of the Communist Party, etc. He stated that the film was pro- ' . @uced through the efforts of political ismigrants from Fasoist Germany, Eisler - also related that while in London he, together with Bertolt Brecht, wrote "Song of the United Front," which he stated he later discovered to be the favorite " gong of the "American proletariat." The article then describes Eisler's concepts on his trip to North America and he states that his purpose was to “actively | support the anti-Fescist federation in the United States." He stated that there is a strong aympathy in the United States toward the Soviet Union and that a person returning from the Soviet became the delegate for many requests “to accurately portray life in a country of conservative socialisn.* BZisler then refers to his most dranatio moment on the trip, which he says was his visit "to the umjustly suffering revolutionary, 18 years imprisoned in an American | prison, Tom Mooney." He states that he was permitted a short ten-minute inter- view with the "prisoner of capitalien," but that this was insufficient for hin to tell Mooney what he wanted to know moat of all, namely “the new life of the proletariat of 1/6 of the entire globde.* g uot«s 2 In the article Fieler ocaments that he hed been invited « ase ; professor of music at the New York "New School for Socoisl Sciences," which he vas glad to accept because it "vill give me the opportunity to teach new ranks of revo-— lutionary couposers.* Other artioles regarding Eisler's visit to the Soviet | Union subsequent to his trip to the United States were known to this sores, One dated July 18, 1955, appeared in the Moscow Daily Nevs. In this article Eisler ie quoted as saying he would return to America. in the Fall, where he Would teach at the New School for Bocial Research in New York City. 4 u -h- é ~T