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DANNY XAYE would be & playback of the "Ctutl Liberties” bresdcast uade Srem Zellyweed en the previous Sundey tn which nevie stere speke on behalf ef the witnesses whe had been aubpoenaed te testify befere the jouse Committee on Un-Anertoem Activities. — The article stated that. thie breadcast included Denny Kaye. The "Datly Yorker" quae an east coast comnuntet newspaper whitch Suspended publication ex Januery 13, 1958, “The Yorker," a weekly cennuntat east ceast publication, en Fevenber 9, 1947, contained @ news article cencerning a radte Show put on the previeus Sunday by the Conutttee for the Firat Amendment, which breadcast pretested the netheda of the Heube Un-American Activittes Comntttee. This articlée stated that Danny Kaye told of Ats trip te Vashington with the 26 mexbere of the Comutttee fer the First Anenduent, Accerding te the "Datly Pacple's World,” San Fronctsco, Caltfornta, dated June 9, 1949, Danny Kaye was among those cited Sy the california Senate Coantttee on Un-Anerican Acttutttes as "typtcal of the tndtviduals within the various stalinist orbits about whose activities and Stalinist orograns and causes, thie committee haa presented factual reports or has taken sworr evidence, " The "Datly Worker” of April 13, 1951, page 31, contatned @ column entitled "Why Are They Stlent Poday?" which was uritten by David Platt. In this column Platt nentt oned thet during 1947 the Comnittee for the First Amendment was formed and the representatives of the Committee went te Washington, D.C., where they presented a petition for "Redress of Grievances” te the Clerk ef the House of Representatives in which tt was charged that the tnvesticative function of the wouce Committee on Jn-American Acttutties had been "perverted JTom fair and tmparttal procedures te unfotr, partial, and prejudiced methods.” It was potnted out that numerous individuale stgned this petition and among names listed was that of Danny faye. Platt, tn his article, wanted te knew why these people were stlent ot the present time. It 1s noted that tn April, 1951, the Heuse Conutttee on Un-American Activities waa conducting addttional hearings concerning Communtsm in the netion Picture industry. The "Yew York Datly Newa” of April 27, 1951, reported that on the preceding day a Step Communtam Comatttee was launched in order te Sight against "Red Influence in the Entertainnent