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Director, FBI Re: Reception at Los Angeles _ CONE for Vice President Henry A. Wallace a ~ 2/15/uks Act; Price Subsidies; Teheran Conference. Infermant reported that the nature of the presentation was a satire upon the Republican Party, which was portrayed as isolationists and in effect pro-Fascist. The setting was that of the entrance to a sideshow. On banners were displayed caricatures of individuals such as HERBERT HOCVER, THOMAS E. DEWEY; and United States Senators and Congressmen such as NYE, WHEELER, REYNOLDS, FISH. andi RANKIN; ROBERT McCORMICK of the Chicago Tribune, and WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. Ali 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, a screen writer, and produced by E. Y. HARBURG, a producer at Warner Bros. Both follow the Communist Party line and identify themselves with Commnist 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 Party and Anti~Hew Deal Democrate. Informant stated that following this playlet MR. ROBINSON introduced the Attorney General of the State of California, ROBERT Wi. KENNY, who in turn introduced MR. WALLACE. MR. KENNY was State Senator before becoming Attorney General of the State of California. He has been a con- stant follower of the Commmist Party line and one of the party's staunchest defenders in California. He is the national president of the National Lawyers! Guild, a Commnist controlled organization which constitutes the legal arm of the Communist Party. KENNY'S activities cover a period of Some seven or eight years and have been such that he has been identified as falling in line with each and every switch in the program of the Commnist Party. Informant stated KENNY was active in the American League for Peace and Democracy, the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, the Motion Picture Demecratic Party, which supported the American Peace Mobilization, and now he is the leading figure in the Hollywood Democratic Committee, a Communist front which is the successor to the Motion Picture Democratic Comnittea, neither of which has ever been recognized as a portion of the regular Demo- cratic Party organization. informant stated that following his introduction, the Vice President speke 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 organized labor, the CIO, A.F. of L. and Railroad Brotherhoods. He also stated the Vice President's speech wag essentially a labor speech and was very well received. : Informant stated there wag no doubt whatever that the Communist -}-