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Talal desta te ts ae ay wo vate * oF aon pd : Ce ae m 65-1659 “-.0f the Southern Congress for Human Welfare, known as the ‘League ‘of *ox ’ MMALCOLM COTTON DOBBS was the bead of the Youth Sectiod match wm an tbe Southerners. HOWARD LEE also was active in that organization and also was | connected with the American Student Union and the 4merican Youth Congress. He spoke to me of work with GIL GREEN in the youth field and GREEN in conver- Sation with me mentioned HOWARD LEE from time to time. My best recollec- tion is that HOWARD LEE was a native of West Virginia, although I might be in error on that point of memory. He was a very tall, thin, distinguished- a ww looking young man and was either an attorney or a law student. 1 I: an, alzost “. ‘<: sure that he was a practicing attorney. ne oom . a OE Ca on EY . a ae o wed. ius " "During the war I recall reading in DREW PEARSON'S colum that MALCOLM COTTON DOBBS had applied for a commission in the Army and that he had been barred by the Var Department from receiving a commission. DREW PEARSON sharply denounced the War Department for failure to grant a commission to such a brilliant young man as MALCOLM COTTON DOBBS. a : * at. oe - Mola: aoe "Aas for specific acts in the interests. of the ‘Soviet - thighs” wes ans I was not in a position to have the information itself go through my'hands) ©) , and therefore my knowledge was limited to the statements of these ‘individuals to me on the facts that they had served the Communist movement by obtaining general information available to the Soviet Union while visiting the White House or Hyde Park or both and statements by J. PETERS, PAUL CROSBIE and EARL BROADER. Both OLM COTTON DOBBS and HOWARD LEE spoke to me on several occasions of SOS TASH as one of the youth leaders who also visited the White House with them and who gathered information valuable to the Commmist ” movement and valuable for formulation of Soviet policy; and.on more than one (7° 2." occasion EARL BROWDER spoke to.me, to ROB HALL, . and GELDERS and others of - e: : ° _LASH in similar terms and of LASH having obtained information which he’ ‘quoted *” which I cannot remember. ; _¢ "J similarly recall that it was on policy levels and evaluation of individuals, that is, determining those people in the government who would fall for the Communist propaganda and those who were aware of the real dangers of Communism -— people who should be isolated as far as possible. Those, of course, were not the words used or the terms used, but that was the actual meaning. "During the months I spent in 1937 and 1938 with GILBERT L. PARKS on the islam belonging to him near Port Royal, S. C., he discussed in far more minute detail than any of the others the matter of gathering and :yaluating information obtained from 'friends' in the White House and in other high governnent levels in Washington and the importance of this to the Soviet Government in determining the strategy to be followed. The peouraey, ia . . ~ _ ae 4 = al . . wee . . = -