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CONTWBENTIAL According to the records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Eisler first entered the United States on February 13, 1935, at New York City. He left May 4, 1935, and again entered October 4, 1935, at New York City. He departed from the United States in December, 1935. Regard- __ ing his first trip to the United States, it is noted that according to the highly " confidential source having access to Eisler*s personal effects on May 30 vcr and August 13, 1945, at Los Angeles, California, Eisler is mentioned ine - Rusafan language article which appeared July 20, 1935, in the issue “Soviet : Art” published in the Soviet Union. The article quotes Eisler at length and : . ie prefaced by a remark that Eisler’s first words to the interviewer upen --\ arrival in Moscow were his impressions of the *‘new face of Moscow”’ and *~ especially of the difference between it and what he saw fn the capitalistle | countries. Eisler fs then quoted as saying he made a picture in London ~ 3: entitled “Abdul the Damned,” which was based on the Turkish Revolution 1908. He states that this picture included such contemporary episodes as the ‘anti-Soviet burning of union homes, the punishment ef revolutionists, the under- ground work ef the Communist Party, etc. He stated that the film was produced through the efforts of political immigrants from Fascist Germany. Eisler also related that while in London he, together with Bertolt Brecht, wrote ‘‘Song of « the United Front,” which he stated he later discovered to be the favorite song _ of the “*American proletariat."” The article then describes Eisler’s concepts on his trip to North America and he states that his purpose was to “actively support the anti-Fascist federation in the United States.*" He stated that there is a strong sympathy in the United States toward the Soviet Union and that a person returning from the Soviet became the delegate for many requests ‘‘to accurately portray life in a country of conservative socialism.”* Eisler then refers to his most dramatic moment on the trip, which he says was his visit “to the unjustly suffering revolutionary, 18 years bnprisoned in an Americen prison, Tom Mooney.” He states that he was permitted a short ten-minute interview with the “prisoner of capitelism,°° but that this was insufficient for -. him te tell Mooney what he wanted to know most of namely ithe new life |, Of the © proletariat of 1/6 of of the entire tlobe, 5 \A ene i". gn the article Eisler comments that he had been invited as & professer of muste at the New York “New School for Social Sciences,’* which he was glad to accept because it “will give me the opportunity to teach new ranks of revo-. lutionary composers.” Other articles regarding Eisler’s visit to the Soviet - Union subsequent to his trip to the United States were noted among his effects. One dated July 16, 1935, appeared in the Moscow Daily News. In this article Eisler is quoted as saying he would return to America in the fall, where _ would teach at the New School for Social Research in New York City. x0) « uw -4- cong