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ane wt CA 9” Be ; (roster ~ kedirect) KY 100<A1962 tT. 9/23/49) (TR. 16,649) FOSToR was referred to croes dnterroratory 50, “hid you ever Use & pasejort pot Issued dn your newe™ to which he hac answered, "! nave." FISTSE Stated that the basis ressons ne hed used passports under manes ether than. his own wns becnuse of the situation i: furope, It was very diffioult for a lert winrer or a Cor-samiat to travel in man’ esertries, Soce countries, Itke Creat Briteuin, suintained a black Jist and weuid not let well-known radicals travel -~ throwh the country, This wes one of fe wader comdiderntions for such Caccunists at did usa passports unter other naceF, A second consideration was t)..t Consuniste were £0 Persecuted in this eountry that eany felt thet they would not be arcarded the cor-en rirht of eitizenship to travel if they asked for passports, In his own eure in 194] when he first used a passport under another mano, thie was the period of the iulrer Ealds, the ceriod when the Nu Flux Plan claimed five million members, and the period of the rreat drive arsinst orranized laber, oe" CML W450) posses #on-inued aayin« that he had boon the leader of the ates) @trike a vear or ec before, He war not «a Communist but had bean blasted all over the ecourtry a6 @ rod by the steel trust in the eapitalist presa, The eiitor of the aF of L paper, the “<heeling Majority” in iwheelinr, Waet Virrinia, told hin that the steel industry had been so inflwecd arainst tia thet any steel trust gumaan sould put a bullet dn Ris forehead on “ain “trest ar would nct even be arrested. This was the situation and it «as his impresaton thi: he could mot fet a passport if he asked for one. Fe thouvht thet the situstion in Kuseia was of suoh civuntic properttons thet he - shenid acudy it ent he undertoek ta do 80,5 ‘Fany others were dm similar positions, (TM. 14,651) PoE TEx stated that the Concuniets are belnur persecuted and denied the most eter. ental richts, the right to hold government fobs and the richt to teach, Wo said it is a deplorable thing that such Jaws oxiat that Provoke & their own Viclation @uch as tre Jim Crow laws in the éouth, . a et _ oa (TR. 14,062) ros rer was referred to erosa “interrocatory 106 relating to the "Foundations of Leninism™ and he was asked if he would explain the rature of his Giserrveasent. PTA atated tat ne het creviously answered this at lencth but wanted to add that “he @ur and substance of tre policy thet flow out of harxiam-Leninies are - excresse4 in the celly work and perspectives of the Furty. The fisht to inprovwe the @esonomle conditions ef the people, tho firht to Laprove the sivil liberties of the ~ people and eapecially to sive whatever assistance they orn ta the nerre peaple in. thoir deplorable position, the fight to proaserve the pesce of tha world, Theoe are their daily sotivities, I% is on an educational stage and all this talk about —. . - gonapiracten or about establishing Sootzlicm in the tInited tates overnirht is so wach nonsense, So far as seovring goverasent power ie concerned, they have the peraventive of the alection of 6 ocalition cowermont, a procressive people's front whieh will have the natural inpulae to gore in the direction of £ foodeifem, TAS ih wat roferred to Covermasnt xhibit 2, the -reetinrs to Stalin at the 7th . orld Con-rees, ar4 wan gekod ¢f (t esincided with his evalintion of Stalin, in his oapacit*y os chaire war. of tho Ci, A in the period April, 1945 to July 20, 1945, FOSTF rep lied that eee 5