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. -109- . Conference For Peace. (See HUAC, Testimony of Walter S. 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). . . BEV. FREDERICK MAY ELIOT, another member of the ACLU National Committeé; Signed an open letter to the President on behalf of the now defunct subversive American Council on Soviet Relations. In 1943, ELIOT signed a statement on behalf of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and was listed as a sponsor of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee the same year. He also sponsored the Congress of American Soviet 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 was listed as . a sponsor of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, "6éne of the oldest auxiliaries of the Communist Party in the United States." (See HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, pages 369, 487, 941, 1248 and 1455; American Committee For Protection of Foreign Born letterhead, 1948; and HUAC, Guide To Subversive Organizatigaw$ and Publications in the United States, 1951, page 13). , OSMOND_ K._FRAPNEL, 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, Gufde to Subversive Organizations and Publications in the United States 951, page 85). WALTER FCELLNORN ts a member of the ACLU Board of Directors. According to the testimony of LOUIS 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 preparing the 1956 EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE lectures at Louisiana State University on Administrative restraints on freedom of expression." He was also a former member of the subversive National Lawyers Guild and the Nationa Emergency Conference ff Democratic Rights. (See Hearings, Tax-Exempt Foundations, 1952, pg&e 725; and HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, pages 1210 and 1277). ue i . a va . FRANK P. GRAHAM, Vice Chairman of the ACLU National Committee and Chairman of the National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc., has been affiliated with 16 subversive organizatfons according to the March 8, 1955 issue of The Firing Line, page-30. He was a 1947-1948 Honorary Chairman of the Southern Conference fer Human Welfare, a now defunct Communist front which served "the Soviet Union and its subservient Communist Party in the United States." GRAHAM has also supported the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectu Freedom; American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born; International Labor Defense; National Council of American-Soviet Friendship; and the Americ League for Peace and Democracy. (See HUAC, Report on Southern Conference for f