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Steve Allen — Part 1

100 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Jan 14, 1961 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Steve Allen · 79 pages OCR'd
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LA 9-2498 "Te outrageous effrontery on your part,[ _| when you glamorize Allen and his wife as a ‘good Amatcan family,' and nearly upbraid the ones who picketed Allen's propaganda performance last Saturday morning, makes one honestly wonder about your own political tinctures. When as portion of the public is finally snapping out of it's state of prodigious apathy over the Communist activities in this country, and when many of our most renowned leadern, including President Eisenhower, have insist- ed that this country faces a supreme menace in the Communist conspiracy, and then you praise Allen and all of his sinister, treacherous, pseudo-activities and also berate anti-Red pickets, one would have to seriously wonder about your own patriotiam (to what country). “Not once, repeat, NOT ONCE, in the entire interview did you ask Allen or his wife of the American Legion's charges that the Hollywood For SANE is & subversive group working for the Communist cause in this country, On multifarious occasions, in fact, the Legion has demanded that Allen let a congressional investigating committee, partioularly the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, which has also demanded the same, and has said the same verbatin about the SANE group as subversive, investigate the group to determine whether it is subversive enough to be eradicated or whether the charges of subversion are false and the group be proven innocent of it's charges. Of course, Allen has refused, "After a SANE rally in New York about four months ago, John Edgar Hoover issued a statement saying that the rally wes conceived and controlled by two members of the Communist Party. He also said that the Red workers were simply jocund and exultant over the continued success of SANE and from the support it has received from the press, radio and TV and from the amount of exoneration it hag received after comaitting constant treason. After wi ng last Tuesday evening, I would say that the pic -khe a tes stupidity that you demonstrated, e has a mighty good reason to be happy. mm -—
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