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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 9
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"National Youth Administration-is sccused of having provided-a let-
Dr. J. H. Daves of the T.V.A., Esther Gelders of — National ‘Youth ~
Administration, ani Stewart Meacham of the NLRB,
_. Another-govemment officiel, Aubray Williams, head of the
ter of introduction for "Communist" John Donovan, National Repre-
sentative of the Worke re Alliance, when he came to Bimminghem in
1938 to help promote the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, whicr
the dbeoklet charges, was Communist inspired and controlled. —
The Williams introduction is quoted as heving said in pert:
ee
“I regard him very highly and have found that he usually knows what
he is talking about." oy
The author describes an “anti-American song book" prepared by
the studentea at Highlander; he says that on “the most-thumbed page® |
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ia the Communist theme song, the Internationale, and from page 23 he |
quotes "an old tune with new words" as follows:
“uy country tis of thee,
Land of mass misery,
Of this I sing. |
Land where the workers toil,
And bosses reap their spoil,
Where children starve and freoze,
From fall till spring."
"A dengerous alien-bred and alien-minded Fifth Column has in- |
¥aded an unsuspecting Southland,” says Mr. Kamp in his opening charge,
“Its agents, agitators and saboteurs are in atrategic positions in
-the schools and the churches; among femers and industriel workers;
on WPA projects and in government agencies. Everywhere - in every
Southern state, in most every community - this sinister network is
spreading its vicious propaganda and organizing its foroes,
"So subtle has bsen its approach, it has enlisted andis cur-
rently reosiving the help of many respected and trusting Southerners: -
Its program is anti-American ani anti-God. The ultimate goal is so-
cial chaos, the overthrow of the governmnt and the establishmant of
‘a naw social order'*.
After presunting much dotailed data and many quotations fron
Communiat documents, Mr. Kemp makes the blunt charge that ths ob jec-
tive of the Fifth Column is "to ‘take cver' industry! To ‘take over’
the South! To ‘take over’ America." : |
Wittingly, oF umittingly, gvemment officials including a
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