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* Dea “ ae A long time ago, 1928, in fact, 1 met one Herbert Harri# in - Hornell, N.Y. He is a graduate of the University oP SyPatuets=Ptad num erous talks with Mr, Harris, who was quite a young man then, and it was my first encounter with the Communist jargon,’ in its purest and most un- compromising form, He attempted to "convert" me to the Communist view- point, but it was repugnant to me, I was’ 27 years old at the time, and knew nothing of Com-nunism - but ite doctrines, as expounded by Herbert Harris, were particularly distasteful to ure, I was with the U.. 5.. Immigration Ser- © vice in Buffalo, then, and after my return from Hornell I talked over the Communist doctrines with my. present husband, Marcua Reback, who was with the Service until he retired in 1950. He told me then that it was his opinion that Mr, Harris had been infected by Communism, + are aint eR we oe ‘ Bere Mr, Harris came to e but our friendship dwindled, ee me in Buffalo several times thereafter, if there had ever been a friendship, In 1941 or 1942, he called me from Washington, very jubilant, and told me he had been. appointed to a position there, "to help fight the Nazis and save our noble Ally, Russia.’ Iam not certain of the Department to which he was appointed then, but I remarked to my husband, at the time, that I could not understand: why a man of his convictions had been chosen by Washington to'Help in the War Effort, ''as the Jargon was in those days, T forgot all about Mr, Harris until recently, when someone in- : formed me that he now held a inost important position in the State Depart-.-. : ment - a position he has been holding for years - and writes text books and... - other propayanda for that Department, and "guides opinions of State Depart-... ment officials. '' To say that I was shocked is an understatement, Of course, ~ we all know that Corm:unists have done, and still do, a great deal of pro-— Communist work in the State Senartment, but Mtr, Harris ia the only one’. I know personally, . Do, a ane When Mr, Harris called me from Washington, in 1942, it was be-. cause he wished me to write material in behalf of “democracy, " heavily . weighted with good feeling towards Russia, I declined, - For a number of (6 years, from about 1941 to 1947, the Government would buy at least 2,000 copies of my books for the armed forces and for our overseas libraries, Then, ‘from 1947 on the State Department ceased to buy my books. When my book,..7 THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE, was published in 1952, (an out-right attack on Communism abroad and particularly in the United States, ) the State Departs |» : ment wrote, prior to publication, and asked for galleys on the book, as my! . Br publisher hud done a great deal of prepublication publicity on the theme of the’ =. book, The ostensible reason, as the State. Department wrote me, ''was to - get you foreign publishers," This was absurd, as the Government, untif ~¢ 1947, had not only been buying thousends of copies of each of my books, but : had been sendiag them to our overseas libraries and for the armed services, - and knew very well that we had always had foreign publishers. “In fact, the ; Government had been buying foreign translations of them, . (over, please) Near hea nee ce mNaN ae S — - e wpe : ae