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ACLU — Part 4

28 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Politics & Activism · Topic: ACLU · 27 pages OCR'd
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Conference for Peace; Methodist: Federation For Social Action and the Committee of One Thousand. (See HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, pages 659, 843, 984, 1247 and 1464; HUAC, Report on the Communist Peace Offensive, 1951, page 149; HuAC, Review of the Methodist Federation For Social Action, 1952, page 81; and "New Republic," 9-27-48), 7 , a Vice Chairman of the ACLU Board of Directors. National Council of Amer ican-Soviet Friendship, Inc. in 1948, and was - affiliated with the Conference on Pan-American Democracy; League of Women Shoppers; American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom; Lawyer's Committee on American Relations with Spain and was a member of the Advisory Committee of Déscendants of the American Revolution, (See Report, State oo pepertment Employee Loyalty Investigation, 1950, Page 44), is 7 MAX .LERNER»eanother ACLU National Committee member has a record of affiliations with subversive organizations according to the 1954 Report of Tax-Exempt Foundations, pages 325-328. "On June 2, 1949, the Daily Worker, page 2,-reported that LERNER, identified as columnist for the New York Post had asserted that the trial against the leaders of the Communist ‘Party ‘has no business being in court. I don't see how anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the history of Communist movements can doubt the - basic rightness of William Z. Foster's plea, in his long manifesto, that under American conditions the attempt to use it would be fantastic,'" LERNER has been affiliated with the following subversive organizations: ; American Student Union; American Congress for Peace and Democracy; Frontier .. Films and American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom. He has been listed as a Signer of the Golden Book of American Friendship with the Soviet Union, a cited “Communist enterprise signed by hundreds of well- known Communists and fellow travelers.'' (See HUAC, Guide To Subversive ......- - Organizations and Publications in the United States, 1951, page 55). ROBERT Tin is member of the ACLU National Committee, According toa congressiviiat¥épor » LYND has been affiliated with the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born; League of American Writers and the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. In 1940 he Signed a statement defending the Communist Party and was a member of the Board of Directors of the subversive | . American Russian Institute. In 1949 LYND’ sponsored the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace and was listed on a 1956 letterhead as- an Initiator of the National Committee to Repeal the McCarran Act. This latter organization was cited as a Communist front by the Internal Security Subcommittee this year as one that defends "the cases of Communist lawbreakers,"' (See HUAC, Appendix Ix, 1944, pages 354, 980, 1096, 1125 and 1200; HUAC, Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, 1949, page 59; Internal Security Subcommittee, "A Handbook for Americans," 1956, page 91; and National Committee to Repeal the McCarran Act letterhead, 1956), J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, member of the ACLU National Committee has been mentionéd many times in past by The Firing Line. In June 1954, OPPENHEIMER was denied security clearance and access to classified government information by the United States Atomic Energy Commission. This Commission found that OPPENHE IMER'S "continuing conduct and associations have reflected &@ serious disregard for the requirements of the Security System...(and) have found a Susceptibility to influence which could have serious implications for the Security interests of the country." In 1943, OPPENHEIMER stated that "he was not a Communist, but had probably belonged to every Communist-front association on the West Coast and signed many petitions in which Communists were — Duds
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