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“4 “he Way the Smear Technic /¢ WasBorn | oi nep. Fred Busbey of Chicago discovers that_he cant od anywnere in Washington a record of the hearings, which the late Dr. William A. Wirt. “first t_ exposed, ammunis + influences. int the New Deal. Even the copies of the Library of Congress have disappeured, 43tOrY and not by accident, Mr. Busbey suspects. wk The Roosevelt history fakers have little to “MEFS earn from Big Brother's Department of ath as George Orwell described it, Dr. W.-t's reward for his attempt to warn the na- 2 was a barrage of ridicule and calumny that may ve & hast. “ed his death. He got his information during itto .. asnington in 1925, when he attended a small aner party, Among those present was Lawrence Todd, 2n and now a member of the official Soviet news 2. espionage agency Tass. The other guests, most of =m in the gavernracnt service, took him for one of the iates, and spoke freely, It was tnere that the phrase was uttered that Roos . was only the Kerensky ef the revolution, to be nd ced by a Statin. Dr, Wirt was told that the center Communist conspiracy was the Department of Ag- ulture, .nder Henry Wallace and Rexford Guy Tug- ihe * * * At that time Alger Hiss, whose conviction as a pers ver-spy is now on appeal before the Supreme court, was one of the_bright young men on aygrourd =the AAA ‘egal staff under Wallace, ° Lee Pressman, another member of that the Reds staff, has since confessed his Commu- t connections and named some of his associates. br. Wirt was hauied before a packed committee of v_Deal congressmen. He was denied representation counsel, althougn James A. Reed, former senator {one of the nation’s ablest lawyers, had volunteered serve him and was on hand, The smearing of Dr. Wirt and the whitewashing of > Communists within the Administration. was. later cribed, in repentance and self-accusation, by former .. O'Connor, who as a member of the committee was ader in the process. In 1940 he said publicly: What a tossing around Dr. Wirt did get. Members ‘he House, who then took the New Deal asa cult, de- vneed and excoriated the doctor on the floor and in press. Little did we know that most of the happen- ‘8 which Dr. Wirt said the plotters had predicted Pe eel “ld come-to pass.” oe Mm an °, Tpleor — ~~ ‘ Pe f er. z dow it 7+ Ghavin_ eo: = Nichols #7 Roser Kr Tracy, Merbe__ 4 i Belmea RL oe Mobr Tele® Room ___ Nease Vandy ~ _ \ aw a 4 . “4 hohe rd TO data ae (. ’ \ : en a Nee , oat aor 7 r “f € + “Pe : . it : t i 4 : a ee : a . / . / , ° 13 &.. Sir i '251 eee Sie Page if Time. -Herala ae Wasi. Poet Meee We lo. News - Wa star N. 22Por a