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— tote LO 8 lin S ‘we 1AAV a WN PO OHS ew NE aw oO eee eee ee ae ee ee ee ee. rs he. ae of 4 ww SOURCE furtuer informed that Miss HELLMAN was a sponsor of a project __ - -set up by the SPAINISH REFUGES RELIEF CAMPAIGN called the AMERICAN RESCUE SIP KISSIGN, the purpose of thich was to raise tho sum of .300,000 to rescue refugees from tho Spanish Civil ‘iar. The address of this organization was 38] Fourth avenue, New York, N.Y. This was also the address of the LEAGUE & ANERICAN WRITERS, When this projeot was started, it secured the endorsemont of Mrs. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, HSLEN KELLER and other very prominent persons. When Mrs. ROOSEVELT and Miss KELLER discovered that it was a Communist corttrolled projoot, they publicly withdrew thore- from. TAC March 1, 1940, page 15. _ SOURCE informed that she was a signer of @ document calidd “In Defense of tho Bill of Rights". This was a protest against attacks on the Communist ‘arty. The effort originated in Nev York, but solicited sponsors and signers nationally. PEOPLE'S WORLD, December 16, 1939: Sponsor of an organization called "ASSEMBLY FoR JUSTICE TO NATIONAL KINORITIZS", set up in “ashington, D, C. October 27, 1941. This was a Communist front organization created for the usual purposes, ¢ pressure group. PEOPLE'S WORLD, October 28, 1941. _ Svonsor of a dinner given for tho benefit of "ANTI-FASCIST FIGHTERS THO “EXT TO SP.IN" , given about «pril 1, 1942 in New York, N.Y. Governor LEHMAN of Notr York was dravm in as a sponsor of this affoir, but withdrerv publicly when ho discovered it was a Communist project. LOS ANGELES EXAMINER, &pril_2, 1942. 62,570 stated that Miss HELLMAN, by her sponsorship of numerous efforts made by the Commmist Party and ite front organizations to prevent aid to England and Frenee during tho period of the pact between Stalin ond Hitlr and by her support of the AMERICAN PEACE HOBILIZATION in ite efforts to dofeat our national defenso, and then her later change to one of patriotism and all out aid to the allies, showed that she is in close sympathy with the lino of the Communist Party in the United States. As evidones of that change in line, sho vas a signer of a call to "All Crcativo “orkors"” in the United States, to demand full support to Great Britain and the Soviet Union in their struggle for the "demolition of Fascism". - This call, rhich she signed, was sent ouk by the LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WRITERS about July 20, 1941, approximately thirty days after the attack on Soviet Euseia by Hitler, L\'o