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KK 100-2375 | or On April 27, 1944, PIERRE DeROSTANG, Manager of the Transportati Building, Detroit, advised that CLARA VINCENT and Reverend CLAUD. (WILLIAMS maintained an office in room 420 of that building. A Aist of their office activities included "People's Congress,” "Institute of Applied Religion," and "The Protéstant, Détvoit Branch." eames The People's Congress for Peace and Democracy has been cited by the Californie” Comsl ties’ on Un=American Activities, 1948, as the forerunner of the American League for Peace and Democracy. , The Amorican League for Peace and Democracy is listed by the U. S. Attorney General as a subversive and Comaunist organiza- tion in his letter of September -21, 1948. In the Congressional Record, under date of Septenbor 24, 1942, Attorney General FRANCIS BIDDLE declared, that "In an effort to create public sentiment on behalf of’a foreign policy adopted to the interest of the Soviet Union. . . the Amrican League for Peace and Democracy. . . was designed to conceal Communist control, in accordance with the new tactics of the Communist International.” "The Protestant” has been cited ‘by the Special Committee on | Un-American Activities, in its report dated March 29, 1944, as 2 "magazine which hag faithfully propagated the Communist Party line under the guiso of being a religous journal.” According to.CI 2-10, of known ‘reliability, VINCENT was scheduled to speak at the mooting of the Northwest Communist Club on October 24, 1944. VINCENT reputedly criticized. this club for its deterioration. ; The Northwest Communist Club was an affiliate of the Communist Political Association, which was declared a subversive and Con- rmunist organization by the Attorney General in his letter of September 21, 1948. VINCENT was a delegate to the National Negro Congress, 10th Annual Convention, which was"heid at Detroit, Michigan, from May 30 through June 2, 1946, according to CI T-11, of known reliability. The National Negro Congress has been declared a subversive and Comaunist organization by the U, S. Attorney General in his ‘ letter of September 21, 1948. oTo ‘ 1