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AP 100-30], organiser; as secretary for the Committee for Georgia. E stated she thought it would be a geod idea but that BEST @ letter to BRANSON PRICE, CLARK FOREMAN, and to #EST's "bro tne) s about securing the services of PRICE. NATHAN ROSS, Southern organizer ’ for the Communist Party, is the brother-in-law of DONALD 1. BEST. As reported in my letter of Noyember 19, 1947, officials of the SCHW were incensed et a column of Mr. RALPH MoGILL, Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, which sppsared in that paper on the morning of November 15, Mr, HeGILL in his column mentioned the possibility of their being dis- order during the WALLACE meeting, and he also made lightly veiled allegations that the SCHW was following the Commmist Party line in the i which the WALLACE meeting had been arranged, ; ording to on the afternoon of Novenber 15, 1947, CLARK FORMAN told WEST that he had already talked to THOMAS W. JOHNSON, an attorney in Macon, sbout the possibility of entering a suit for criminal libel against MoGILL and the Atlanta Constitution, FORFMAN said that a telegram end letters had been sent to the Constitution demanding a retraction of MeGILL's article and an apology. There was also contained in the letters a threat for suit for criminal libel gal During the telke preceding the address of Mr. WALLACE on Noyember 20, CLARK FOREMAN and others made a number of derogatory references to Mr. MeGILL and the Atlanta Constitution. It was noted that the Atlanta Constitution gave no publicity whatever to the appe ar~ ance of Mr. WALLACE in Hacon or Atlanta. UBC SCM 100=301 cot. New Orleans AT files 100+559 . 100-873 100~4£010 b7D