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Paul Crouch testified before the Senate Subcammittee on Internal Security, as follows: "The Highlander Folk School is a school operated at Monteagle, Tennessee, ostensibly as an independent labor school, but actually working in close cooperation with the Commmist Party." (See Hearings, page 47.) Dombrowski was an instructor at the Highlander Folk School for a number of years. The following colloquy took place between Senator Eastland, Committee Counsel Arens, and Mr. Crouch during the latter's testimony: SENATOR EASTLAND. Mr. Crouch, did you ever visit Dr. Dombrowski's home? MR. CROUCH. I visited the Highlander Folk School where he was working. I didn't visit at his home, but we spent a night at the same hane together, Caroline Stevenson's, and he and Leo Sheiner discussed in my presence the actual hideout of Communist leaders the night we were traveling to Winter Haven. MR. ARENS. He and Sheiner discussed in your presence the hideouts for Conmunist leaders, top light leaders; is that correct? {See hearings, page 52.) Don West, who has already been mentioned as connected with the Highlander Folk School, was district director of the Communist Party of North Carolina. (See House Committee Hearings, May 6, 1949, page 191.) At the New Orleans hearings of the Senate Committee, on March 20, 1954, Myles Horton was ejected by the United States Marshal fran the witness stand and the hearing room. Another speaker who joined with the Rev. Martin Luther King on “Ko the program of the Hi der Folk School, during the Labor Day weekend, was Aubrey} Williams, A tabulation of Aubrey Williams! Communist connections during the past 20 years is attached to this report. Tenn GP hicnibor —