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ep ene M8 eS TOL RE On Oa TREDD <tercerTtge HINES ce: Te + aw thens ... Nease Viaterrowd fele. Room. os folloman sendy 4 Req. rectd: 10/16/56 Ls HELEN ADAMSOXTLLER : ee Born: te 27, 1580 aaa “Tuscumbia, Alabana ee 5, Reference is made to your name check request con- cerning the captioned 4ndividual. No investigation has — boen conducted by this Bureau with regard to Helen Adams Kollor. The files of this Bureau. do reflect the following pertinest information concerning this individual. This information may bo presumod to have been obtained from reliable sources wiless 4t is indicated otherwise. The "Daily Worker," an east coast communist nevwse pepor, issue of April 9, 1938, contained an article captioned ‘Appeel for Lifting of Arms Embargo on Spanish Government." _ The article stated that an appeal to tho democratic countrics of the world and to the President of the United States te end the Arms Embergo against Spain and give the Spanish pecple "a fighting chance" had been made public tocay by the Amcerics: Friends. of Spanish Democracy. One of the signers of the peti-g ticn according to the article was Helen Keller. The American Friends of Spanish Democracy was referred to by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, in its report dated a, March 29, 19, as follows: Nin 1937-38 the Communist Party threw itself whole-heartedly into the campaign for the support of the Spanish Loyalist cause, rocruiting men and orravizine multifarious so-called relief orpanigatloniS..sces SUCH AS++++s American Friends of Spanish Lemocracy +" ¢9 7667-208 - . Tiere appeared in the "Daily Worker" issue of October 6, 1938, an article captioned "Helen Koller Hails Robert Ravon As Friends Plan To Honor Veteren." The article stated that Robert Raven had just returned from a nation-wide tour on behelf of the campaign Launched by the Friends of the Abreham Lincoln Brigade to bring home the American Volu:teors who fought in Spain. The articlo set forth the contonts of tuo letters which Miss Keller had sent Raver. In orc of these Orig. and one to USIA OAOEXED i b2-¢ 0 ? NOV 201986. 31 ABS