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| : FHE AMERICAN LEGivi | - GIR 1 ; Prepared and Distributed By The National Americanism Commission, P'O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana . v ; Subscription rate $3.00 peryear—_—s.:—«a.- Quy \ . . . . i er 15, 1956 VOL. NO. V, NO. 25. en Decemb 7 EXED-58:. it < L AMERICAN CIVIL TES UNION, PART TIT ....2 P3227 ee Readers wild. recall that the October 15th and November -1st issues coe of The Firing Line were devoted to reports relative to recent activities of the’American Civil Liberties Union, inc. ACLU). With national offices . ° located at 170 Fifth Avenue, New York City, this 36 year old organization, :; together with 19 state affiliates, claims a total membership of about . ” 35,900. Continuing The American Legion's investigation of the ACLU, this issue of The Firing Line studies another phase of its background and current "activities. (See ACLU "Civil Liberties", February 1956, page 3 and ACLU 35th Annual Report: "Clearing The Main Channels", 1955, pages 132-134), . DIRECTORS OF ACLU - NATIONAL LEADERSHIP -- --~-°. L ne OEE LE . Based upon a September 1956 letterhead, the following 24 individuals ; are listed as members of the Board of Directors Or National Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union: — : ; ; - BISHOP JAMES C, BAKER, ACLU National ‘Committee member was a 1947 Vice President of the Methodist Federation For Social Action. According to .& recent report of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, the Methodist’ - Federation For Social Action was formed by the Communist Party as a religious front organization. In 1948, BAKER sponsored the Committee of One Thousand, a "Communist created and controlled front organization"; and was listed as a 1951 initiator and Sponsor of the National Committee To Repeal the McCarran Act, another Communist front. (See HUAC, Review of the Methodist Federation For Social Action, 1952, page 82; Committee of One Thousand letterhead, 1948; “Daily Worker", 3-23-51, page 2; Internal Security Subcommittee, "A Handbook ‘:; For Americans", 1956, page 91 and HUAC, Guide To Subversive Organizations and ‘ Publications In The United States, 1951, page 38). been cited as subversive and Communist accorcing to a report in the February 1, 1955 issue of The Firing Line, page 14.° A World War I draft evader, BALDWIN testified before the Special Committee To Investigate Communist Propaganda in the United States in 1930 "which was to the effect that the American Civil. Liberties Union upholds the right of aliens or nationals to advocate murder , assassination, and the overthrow of our Government by force and violence." BALDWIN wrote in the Harvard University Year Book of 1935 that he was for "socialism, disarmament and ultimately for- abolishing the State /itsel f as an fe 2 instrument of violence and compulsion, Communism is the -podlwe (see-fpécial™ ao L Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of fp-Aperican’ Propaganda y Activities In The United States, Volume I, 1938, pages 1617, 462and 7533). , lane INDEXED-56 ale \ y oy COPYRIGHT 1956 BY THE AMERICAN LEGION a ae rl REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR PART WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION |S PROHIBITED. Le Pt DECS1 “772 " Be .. age ee