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ay. ee i rT FORS AON TOURER itt ihe Ph“ ter ey sree aetna | 8 ganizations, including the Committee for the First Amendment, which avow- edly excludes Communists, and many groups long extinct, were pronounced “Communist fronts.” “Afterwards came the “investigation” of the groups al- ready branded. Guilt by association “proved” the ‘ “findings” pteyiously an- nounced, Prominent among those subpoenaed were four executive-board members of Mixers: of the UN ‘Security Council—the US in particular— are still discussing the partition of There_is very.ittle doubt as to Palestine i in measured phrases. But - beneath the diplomatic amenities ‘lies the Council’s realization that the Palestine impasse may be slowly putting an end to the United Na- tions as an effective international or- ganization, For reasons: of morale, most UN: delegates are keeping their deep - pessimism to themselves. ° know, however, that unless the UN force the partition recommendation; thority it now possesses. ~ If partition fails through Jack of- enforcement, the responsibility for failure will lie largely with the: US.-This country, with its” great prestige, can either force implemen- tation of partition through the Security Council or compel it‘to be - dropped. Resulgs of inaction. US Dele- gate Warren R. Austin indicates that the US, by following a policy "result: it will vote for implementa- tion, but will exert no pressure on other meinbers to do likewise. This policy of procrastination is apparently based on the hope that during a protracted investigation, ° partition will wither away. Austin knows that delay can be fatal, es- pecially in view of the fact that Britain will begin to withdraw her Stalling on Palestine . the Division’ of Near ‘Eastern’ and ‘They armed body to enforce partition. -. . takes ‘rapid, decisive action to en- | it will-lose what semblance of au-. ‘force for Palestine—the US, the of inaction, will bring the second : . could probably be persuaded to join the Actors’ Laboratory Theater, (a drama school and production company of high professional standing in Holly- wood. The. four wete actress Rose Hobart and veteran character actors J. Edward Bromberg, Roman Bohnen and Will Lee. Before calling the four to the stand, Committee Counsel Richard E. Combs read into the record the names of every known national, state and local Com- troops on May 15, leaving the prob. lem in UN hands. the identity of the pressures which are’ determining the course of United States policy in the Security Council. Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and the State Depart- ment’s Loy Henderson, director of African Affairs, have served “notice - that-they will oppose creation ofan Their primary purpose seems’ to be - to keep friendly relations with Arab’ states which control the huge Mid- - dle East oil reserves, even if such appeasement means Aropping parti. ~ tion. It's up fo us. If F the 1 US decided to reverse its stalling policy, it would need only to persuade any one of the three powers, China, Colombia or Argentina, to change ‘ from: abstention to support of im- plementation. So far,’ the Council has six of the seven necessary votes to set up an international police USSR, France, Canada, Belgium and the Ukraine. China, with her heavy reliance on US financial aid, the majority. ' But, as things look now, the US is apparently set to relax on the side lines after casting its own vote. And the UN will go down to its first, and perhaps last, crucial de- feat. munist official. Having allowed that to sink in, Combs then proceeded to re- fer to one Jacobina Caro Davison, pos- ture instructor at the Actors’ Lab, as being the wife of alleged-Communist Sidney Davison, director of the Peo- ple’s Educational Center, a Hollywood school which is also on the Tenney list. Actors’ Lab board members Bromberg and Bohnen were alleged to have “taught” at the Center. Actor Will - Lee, moreover, was claimed to have in- setted a greetings advertisement in a local Communist publication under the pseudonym of William Lee. Tenney's contention was that any connection between the Actors’ Lab and_the Center proved the Lab to be a “Marxist training center for actors,” and, conversely, any association be- tween the Center and the Lab showed that the Center was a “Red front,” Will Lee denied inserting the ad, and testified that he was appearing in the East at the time of its publication. He "pointed “out to Tenney the fact that there are 42 other William Lees in the telephone directory, and suggested . them as equally likely prospects. Boh- nen said‘he did indeed deliver a lecture ; on the theory of acting at the People’s _ Educational Center in 1941; Bromberg denied evér having done so. Jacobina - Caro, as was not revealed, had divorced Davison seven years’ ago. FDR smear. The Roosevelt smear was provided by giving wide publicity to a statement of University. of Cali- fornia President Robert Gordon Sproul that he was-host to the 1943 Writers’ Congress “at the direct request of President Roosevelt.” The statement had been issued, Tenney explained, “after our committee had informed Dr. Sproul that the odor of the Hollywood Writers’ Mobilization [sponsors of the congress} was not that of violets.” On the last day of testimony, Fed- eral Judge Leon R. Yankwich, previ- ously charged with having been a “‘lec- turer” at the People’s Educational Center, demanded the witness stand. When sworn in, the Judge filed a copy of the lecture he had delivered at the Center, originally prepared for the (Continued on page 10)