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Party and Anti-New Deal Democrats. nr a td LT Director, FBI . ; Re: Reception at Los Angeles LON 3 Tay for Vice President Henry A. Ballace — oe — 2AS/UL Act; Price Subsidies; Teheran Conference. Inforrant reported that the nature of the presentation was a satire upon the Republican Party, which was portrayed aa isolationists and in effect pro-Fascist. The setting was that of the entrance to a aideshow. on banners were displayed caricatures \ of individuals such as NERBERT HOGVER, THOMAS E. DEV'EY; and United States \ Senators and Congressmen such as NYE, WHEELER, REYNOLDS, -FISH and RARKIN; ROBERT McCORKICK of the Chicago Tribune, amd WILLIAH RANDOLPH BEARST. All , were caricatured as freaks to be seen for an entrance fee. The book "Under Cover" by ROY CARLSON was mentioned favorably. This book is a "mst be — \ read" by all Communists. Russia was classified as the savior of the world. \ _ The skit was written by BEN HECHT, @ screen writer, and produced by E. Y. HARBURG, a producer at Warner Brog. Both follow the Communist Party line and identify themselves with Cemnnist front organizations. Although ROBINSON in his opening remarks called for a cessation of all partisan politics, this skit was a particularly vicious attack on the Republican Informant stated that following this playlet PR. ROBI‘SON introduced the Attorney General of the State of California, ROBERT ¥. KENNY, who in turn introduced MR. FALLACE. Mi. KENNY was State Senator before becoming Attorney General of the State of California. He has been a con stant follower of the Commnist Party line and one of the party's staunchest defenders in California. He is the national president of the National Lawyers’ Guild, a Communist controlled organization which constitutes the legal ara of the Commmist Party. KEHNY'S activities cover a period of . $06 seven or eight years and have been such that he has been identified as falling in line with each ani every switch in the program of the . Comminist Party. Informant stated KENNY was active in the American League for Peace and Democracy, the Hollywood Anti-Nasi League, the Motion Picture Democratic Party, which supported the American Peace Mobilization, and now he is the leading figure in the Hollywood Democratic Comittee, a Communist front which is the successor te the Motion Picture Democratic Committee, neither of which has ever been recognized as a portion of the regular Demo- cratic Party organization. . Infornant stated that following his introduction, the Vice President spoke for about an hour on the future world to come after the Present war is over. He also stated the Vice President said in his speech that he was there as the guest of organised labor, the CIO, a.F. of L. and Railroad Brotherhoods. He also stated the Vice President's speech was essentially a labor speech and was very well received. | Informant stated there was no doubt whatever that the Communist