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ht eae led pent coatieperpescenentes ongerestipeiy me: nated , PRIMES 97 HI ere arnt ene v t 7 a ¥ 4 Sty Crreon . : Me. Tracy - Me. bean . BOWER SIE bre rnet Me Pinto RIE re bier i ie Be February 18, 1946 ee, nots i ~ , Mr. Je Edgar Hoover | [ees Po Federal bureau of Investigation b sie. Nese. \) Washington, D. C. bei atid Dear Mr, Hoovers _ _ —_ ~ ae Indiana Press Women's At the January meetin of the ery “your Operatives y Mre John J. Gleason. During the discussion at the close of the talk, Mr. Gleason told us that you had published a } pamphiet on "Tht ace_of Communism’. I would be very pleased to receive a COpye I am indeed alarmed about the spread and strength of . Comminism in our country, but there is something that at the moment concerns me more,and that isv€ascism. ormative address by one 0 ¢ ; er At this meeting in Indianapolis I was approached by a IN casual acquaintance as to present-day conditions in ‘ Russia. She offered to send me a publication, which, x 4n her own words, told us things we would otherwise not v hear about. ortly afterwards I received two marked v copies of Ti TIONAL REPUBLIC. I am still smarting from that Insu omy intélligence, for I thought no one would imagine I would be talen in by that too obvious . \ propoganda. So . I read the magazines carefully before answering the woman in returning her copies. One article tried to prove that the movement in Argentina was Conmunist and used Fascism as a mask for their perfidy}! On one page appeared a notice of a new book. This announcement was isplayed prominently in a box and was entitled THE 200K OF. THEDAY, and was the advance notice‘of a new book by, of all people, Hamil ponedsh. One article ; spoke in defense of Gerald L.K. Smith, A list of, - : . avowed Commnistsa included such persons iuicoebgpKelier, DeanMilderbleeve, Mrs, Frederick#iarsh, Edgar, SNOW, and Bishop$Qxnam. WDEXEN’? ~~ 7 - we +