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Joseph Lash — Part 6
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ony
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*- thing on earth must be
Pee
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bes
= the
:: political con
& Mrs, Eleano
i
eer pen
:. lion known. as*Amer for Demo-
' — EMllott ¢ is advertised in
“. the unist press as a speaker
¢ under the auspices of the . opposing
zo left wing organization, the; ‘ -
i sive .Citizens of America. PCA does
{ uot ‘bar Communists, but welcomes *
& them, end is under Suspicion of being
line.
: dames: velt is reported ill on
> che West
i vlitical. background includes a
noney < making association with an
organization which supported the
ts
¥
| Communist party line and a more re-| Zens Committee of
zeent job as Democratic state chair-
= oman in California. . ®
i BARRED COMMUNISTS
; Franklin D, Roosevelt Jr. is vice
3 chairman of Americans for Demo-
«cratic Action. In a week-end meet-
“ng here ADA voted to bar Com-
‘nunists from membership and to
' upport President Truman’s proposal
“:0 aid Greece and Turkey
- Billed .in the Communist press to
speak Jas& night in a PCA mass meet-
‘ng in New York to protest Mr. Tru-
“ “en's Greek-Turkish aid program
‘sere: former Commerce Secretary
. denry Ad Wallace, Sculptor Jo David-
of, Radid Commentator Frank King-
«p—~and Elliott Roosevelt. The meet-
‘ng was billed as a “crisis rally.”
Messrs, Kingdon and Davidson are
. O-chairmen of PCA. The organiza- |
‘ion itself was created by merger of
A
ee ee
or
»
Ma
Reteenee e
Thbse famous Roosevelt fam-
‘conversations about every-
pretty.
= hotly contested these days when
clan gathers for informal
velt and Frank-
fe tn De Jesere Sparkplugs of the new
fe ett-wing anti-Communist organiza-
t. But his nace]
Elliott Roosevelt was
have ended his allegiance to the Inde-
oN ee we ec
MRS. ROOSEVELT
Left and anti-Red
the National Citizens Political Action
| Committee and the“Tndependent Citi-
the Arts, Sciences
‘and Professions. Mr. Kingdon had
been chairman of the former; Mr.
Davidson of the latter.
Of the NCPAC, which Mr. King-
don headed, the House Un-American
Activities Committee had this to say
in 1944:
“It has been clearly established by
overwhelming evidence that the Na-
tional Citizens Politica) Action Com-
mittee is the major Communist front
Organization of the moment.”
UNDER NEW TITLE
The record ‘suggests Significant
Communist infiltration of the © or-
ganization under whose sponsorship
billed to speak,
ér that it is an old Communist front
set up under a new title. .
dames Roosevelt is understood to
f,
ra
pendent Citizens Commit e
was selected Democratic Party chair-
Jaan in California. The
‘big splurge last March wii
ment that Mr. Roosevelt would be di- |.
rector of organization in its drive to
round up the independent vote. He;
pay roll at what his asso-
Was on the |
former Interior Secretary Harold.
ciate,
ode Tek
_ Mr. Ickes was
mittee big shot,
jast November, apparently because the
organization was
FRANKLIN D. JR.
Left and anti-Red
—_ ‘. , a
ELLIOTT
Way to left
es, described as “well paid.”
an Independent Com-
too, but he resigned
the Communist party line.
Mrs. Roosevelt's experience with the
ee
—
tee when he
Playing footie with }
ICC made: a |:
th announce-
|
|
,fellow travelers was about like that of | -
‘Mr. Icker-«jab, may. be why-she is |-
~ 180 active now dnc Sw anti-Com-
Mr. “Quinn: Tana
Mr. Nease._*
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