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WFO 161-2419 Party were JOSEPH R, BRODSKY, NATHAN WITT, LEO GALLAGHER, LEE PRESSMAN, DAVID J. BENTALL, ISAAC E, FERGUSON, and others who have been active in defending communist cases, The House Committee on Un-American Activities characterized the International Juridicial Association as an organization which ‘actively defended Communists and constantly followed the Communist Party Line!. It was an officilal offshoot of the International Labor Defense, cited by the Attorney General as '!the legal arm of the Communist Party’, "The International Juridical Association was succeeded in the Communist Hierarchy by the National Lawyers Guild. The leadership of the two organizations interlock significantly, In 1937, FORTAS was a member of the National Executive Board of the National Lawyers Guild which has been cited as subversive by the Attorney General, In 1940, a split occurred in the organization and there was a defection of a large group of well known anti-communists, To our knowledge, FORTAS!' name haz not appeared on its letterhead since then, "A letterhead of the American Law Student's Association shows Professor ABE FORTAS, of Yale Law School, as a member of its faculty advisory board, The American Law Student's Assoctation was a part of the American Youth Congress which has been cited as subversive by the Attorney General, It was also an affiliate of the United States Peace Committee, a part of the Communist controlled peace front, Its letterhead shows Union Label 209, of the Prompt Press, which prints Communist Party Literature, "ABE FORTAS was a member of the Washington Committee for Democratic Action, which has defended the interests of individval Communists and whose meetings have been addressed by such vell ‘mown Communists as ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN, LEE PRESSMAN, and DOXEY WILKERSON, It was activé in 19/9 and 1941 during the pertod of the STALIN-HITLER pact." Page LIX of the above hearings contained the following information under the heading 'Building a Group Within the Government', "Tor some undisclosed reason, WHITE's office arranged satherings of a number of selected, high-ranking, policy-making, officials from various Departments of the Government, sone on May 11 (veer not given, but estimated during the period 1942+ 1944) at the Athens Cafe and the other on November 15, 1944,