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Later on, ‘Mrse FISCHER comente “0 ‘on , the ¢ arrival of “ OERHART in New _ York City an Juna of 1941 and adds, "In response to liberal pressure, in which © . HANNS had a hand, he 1 was released after three Bonths _Againat 8 a + $900.. bond". (from oe ” “ or s a: - ge Fe SF ~ , - we ne Ae - ote 5 , ont ale * oy . : ame ee ’ a ars . ory — co “therein, ? "RUTH FISCHER coments: on “the ‘york of GERHART EISLER in ' the United States and con ares this work with that of PAUL MERKER, a Communist _ trade union organizer, afd Reichstag Deputy in Mexico, She adda, "Compared with _ MERKER's © job in Mexico, ART's counsel for a democratic Germany made a poor _Showirg indeed, But with the help of his brother HANNS, the canposer, he was “able to compensate for the failure by making ¢ a Shorr. among, the actors and © writers of Hollywood". clety pee Pe, . os me mR Aphicle #6 dated November 23, 1946 2000 A ee In this article RUTH FISCHER deals almost entirely with HANNS EISLER. In effect she states as follows: ; . HANNS EISLER was brought into the Commnist Party in 1926 by © GERHART and arrived in Berlin at the time when GERHART was maneuvering to become a leader of the German Communiets. GERHART hoped to profit fram his family re- lation with the composer and frilled him with stories of the mysteries and ‘ad- venture hidden among the secrets of conspiratorial technique. HANNS was happy -in the jobs he was given and in the Party had a chance to build up workers .. - choruses and amateur orchestras and to develop them along his own Lines. oo _ HANNS went ‘to the ‘United States in 1935 and his ‘stay in that - “pountry has been interrupted periodically ty tring to Europe. He became a; member of an international cultural clique, and French, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian _Rusaian, and German Agents took advantage of his liberality and drank whiskey with literati at parties he threw in London, Prague,: Parts, and Barcelona. In HANNS! household the occasional arrival of GERHART was an event and the preparation for his coming marked ~-him as an important person. Tn 1942 he went to Hollywood - Sap, ER he Te were he composed incidental music for pictures, and “while there, the Russian Consul in Los Angeles invited him to his intimate parties and honored him by - appearing at the parties HANNS gave in returns People who visited in his home were curious companions for NKVD terrorista, © 2 0. er ee HANNS EISLER's good friend BERT BRECHT has long been a minstrel of the NKVD, as a poet of Stalent, and in 1929, when GERHART went to China, he he wrote letters to HANNS and BRECHT describing his exploits in bloody detail. ee LON DENTINL