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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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wm | e , - Conference For Peace, (See HUAC, festimony of Walte 5s, Steele Regarding Communist Activities In The United States, 1947, page 143; "Daily worker ,'' ‘ 9-22-50, Page 5; "New Republic, '! 9-27-48; and HUAC, Report on the Communist Peace Offensive, 1951, page 147) Friendship, Signed a message on behalf of the National Federation for. Constitutional Liberties and was an Editorial Advisor of the now defunct Protestant Magazine, According to a 1948 letterhead | ELIOT wag listed as 4 Sponsor of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, "one of the oldest auxiliaries of the Communist Party in the United States," (See HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, Pages 369, 487, 941, 1248 ana 1455; American Committee For Protection of Foreign Born letterhead, 1948; and HUAC, Guide To Subversive Organizations and Publications in the United States, 1951, page 13), . . _OSMOND KETFRAENKEL, ACLU General Counsel and member of the Board of Directors has been affiliated with the following Subversive Organizations: American Student Union; Citizens Committee to Free Earl Browder, Film - Audiences for Democracy, International Juridical Association; and the - National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, Currently, FRAENKEL is Executive Vice-President of the National Lawyers Guild, a ‘Communist front which is the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party, its front Organizations and controlled unions," (See HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, Pages 519, 619, 730, 795 and 1176; National Lawyers Guild letter- head, 1956; and HUAC, Guide Co Subversive Organizations and Publications in the United States, 1951, Page 85), ; WALTER F—-GELLHORN is a member of the ACLU Board of Directors, According to the test itioay~ot “Loy rs F. BUDENZ before the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations on December 23, 1952, GELLHORN was identified as a member of the Communist Party. On Page 52 of the May 31, 1956 Three-Year Report of The Fund for the Republic, Inc., GELLHORN was listed as having received a "Grant-aid!! for "research Costs incurred in Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights, (See Hearings, Tax-Exempt Foundations, 1952, Page 725; and HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, Pages 1210 and 1277), ; . FRANK P-CRANAM, Vice Chairman of the ACLU National Committee and Chairman OF7¢ e National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc., hag been affiliated with 16 Subversive organizations according to the March 8, 1955 issue of The Freedom; American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born; International Labor Defense; National Council ‘of American-Soviet Friendship; and the America i League for Peace and Democracy, (See HUAC., Report On Southern Conference for
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