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January 10, 1946 Mr. Edmund G. Brown 460 Magellan Avenue San Francisco, California Dear Mr. Brown: In a newspaper dispatch datelined New York, January 8, 1946, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, publicly stated that the American Youth for Democracy is the suc- cessor of the Young Communist League. The same United States Government Official, who above all others should be in a position to speak with authority, stigmatizes Amer- ican Communism as holding "....a godless, truthless philosophy of life. They are against the America our forefathers fought and died for; they are against the established freedoms of America e---eThere is a distinction between respecting our ally Russia and respecting those within our country who would destroy all that we believe in." We note that you were listed as a Sponsor for the Banquet honor- ing the American Youth for Democracy held on Saturday, November 10, 1945, at the St. Francis Hotel. As Veterans who fought to prevent these United States from becon- ing "a godless, totalitarian state” we cannot believe that you, as an American citizen, knowingly gave your consent to be used in support of the American Youth for Democracy. Our membership comprising over seventy per cent of the Student Body of this University would like a written expression of your stand on the American Youth for Democracy. Sincerely yours, Omicron Epsilon per Americanization Committee __.