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named a director of the Fund for the Republic, and as such, assisted in channeling $450,000.00 to the Southern Regional Council, a portion of which was channeled to the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, In 1957, at the height of the Little Rock Central High School incident, the Fund for the Republic sent contributions directly to the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, He was one of the three incorporators of . ¢ vam the Arkansas Council on Human Relations. pele Gn the OK Wy natant tearSe } ns Bye 17-14 cf FINDINGS OF FACT we IAple an ah ‘1. COMMONWEALTH COLLEGE, A SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATION, Th OPERATED IN ARKANSAS, CREATING RACIAL UNREST, FROM AT LEAST 1925 THROUGH 1941, WHEN IT WAS CLOSED AS THE RESULT OF A STATE COURT ORDER. TESTI MOWY OF TESTLLIISL Hon. J. L. "Bex¥fsuaver testified that he is a fo¥mer member of the Arkansas Legislature, Lt. Governor of the State of Arkansas, and former President of the Arkansas Bar Association. When he was a member of the General Assembly, he interrogated witnesses as a member of a special committee which investigated Common- wealth College in 1935, He introduced the official transcript from the House Journal of that investigation. His testimony and the transcript reflect the following: In 1925, Commonwealth College settled west of Mena, Arkansas, oo This-sthool had no particular academic requirements, tuition or qualifications for students or faculty. No attempt was made to belie the fact that it was communistic in nature, and to a large extent was supported by organizations with subversive backgrounds. In about_1932, Luciep\k6ch became the director (president) of the school, He subsequently engaged in creating racial tension in connection with the formation of the East . Arkansas Sharecroppers Union, and the Workingmen's Union of the World in and about Fort Smith and Russellville, Koch, Bob _ EA ane Autry @laney went into East Arkansas, especially in ~15.