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¢ ye e é Se a $ a e . - ; 1” : ee Da pee ue . a - reuenararner 7" ea ee ging ah ‘fe wa OTE: ves Pig eo usgunbla,—Alabamie - ee --"Me FEI has not conducted an investigation with . egard to Helen Adams Keller. The files of this Bureau, however, _ ow do reflect ‘the following pertinent information. concerning this 3 we eile individual. fhis information may be presumed to have been obtaint opi. o from reliable .sources unless itis .indicated otherwise. "°°. : Sec tego ge OR eee nee ARE San, eo Qe be Babee ete Fee "= The "Daily Worker} east coast Communist newspaper, | a 72, dssue of April’9, 1938 ,contained an article captioned "Appeal a re for Lifting. of. Arms Embargo.on Spanish Government." The article ! ‘y : | stated that an appeal to. the democratic countries of the worlc — ~* 3 * and to the President of the United States to end the Arms .,.. - Embargo against Spain and ‘give the Spanish people "a fighting 4. >, ehance" had been made public today by the American Friends of 7 “, os Spanish Democracy. “One.of the signers of the petition according _. 1. tov the article was Helen Keller. The American Friends of. Spanish " :*: Democracy was referred to by thé Special’ Committee on Un-American Activities, in its report’dated March 29, 1944, as follows: "in 1937-38 the Communist Party threw 4tself whole-heartedly into the campaign for the support of the Spanish Loyalist cause, Ss - peeruiting men and organizing multifarious so-callec relief Peat organizationsS.....:such as.»...American Friends of Epanish oT a - Democracy +" -61-7561-208X 02.400. 2 eee: ! a ‘there appeared.in the "Daily Korker" issue of October 6 ” 1938,an article captioned "Helen Keller Hails Robert Raven As-, Friends Plan.To Honor Veteran.".. The article stated that Robert '-. Raven had: just returned:from'a nation-wide tour on behalf of ths campaign leunched by the Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigace to bring home the American -Volunteers who fought in Spain. The article set forth the contents of two letters which Miss Keller - had sent Raven. In one of these letters she stated,"It makes me proud to have as a friend such a true soldicr in the cause of Loyalist Spain." The "Daily Worker" issue dated February 15, ~ - 1939,reported that Helen Keller would speak at a memorial meeting to be held under the auspices of the Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.. The Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade /; ' Te —-was referred te as a Communist-front orgenization by the Speofel |" niece ——Committeeton Un-American Activities. 61-7561-214X17 and re: Be 61-7561-243x42 . - _» RECORDED-8G 7. GOS YUE) 3 Whe 6, -1953 pepe Sulife 4 Ai ‘ "7 tate —— Original to State Department we Ps