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used in devious Ways to further basic Soviet and Communist policy. Decisive and key posts are in most instances contrailed by persons whose record is faithful to the line of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. (p. 1) In a 1954 Teport, the Senate Interna] Security Sub- committee reached the following unanimous conclusion: “The Southern Conference for Human Welfare was con- ceived, financed, and set up by the Communist Party in 1938 as a mass organization to Promote communism throughout the Southern States,” (p. v) Southern Conference Educational Fund Attention has already been called to the fact that the Southern Conference for Human Welfare metamor- phosed into the Southern Conference Educational Fund in the middle of 1948. In the shift from one name to the other, the organization maintained the same head- quarters, the same telephone number, the same publi- cation, and the same executive director. The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee reported in 1954 that “an objective study of the entire record compels the conclusion that the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., is operating with substantially the same leadership and purposes as a predecessor viganization, the Southern Conference for Human Wel- fare.” By “the same leadership and purposes,” the Sen- ate Committee meant that the Southern Conference Edu- cational Fund, like the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, was “a mass organization to promote Com- munism throughout the Southern states.” Much has already been said about Aubrey Williams, president, and James A. Dombrowski, executive direc. tor, of the Southern Conference Educational Fund. it May be added that the names of both Williams and Gombiowskt were attached to the brief amici curioe which was submitted to the United States Supreme Court, October, 1955, Term, on behalf of the Com- munist Party, U. S. A. Their support of this brief amici curiae, written with a typical Communist flair, sufliciently reveals the idealogical Position of these two Principal officials of the SCEF. As has already been indicated, the Southern Confer- ence Educational Fund exerts a commanding influence in the South today, and is in the vanguard of the pro- Communist integration forces. The principal function oi the Southern Conference Educational Fund is to serve as a bridge between the Communist Party on the one band and misguided Southern Liberals on the other hand. In this function, it has been remarkably suc- cessful, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People A special word concerning the NAACP is necessary. ibis organization is nor a Communist front. ‘the NAACP has published a pamphlet by its Assist. ant Field Secretary, Herbert Hill, entitled c Com- unist Party—-Enemy of Negro Equality. This pam phlet is a devastating indictment of Communist vi ics on the Negro question. ann a foreword to the pamphiet by Herbert Hill, Rey Wilkins correctly appraises the Communist interes in the Negro question, as follows: “Far from being sincer j about doing something for Negro Tights, the “< mam in W) ists use the Negro merely as a pa Soviet cam i inst the United States and the wes Peon Pe other hand, it must be obser that the been a prime objective o mmuni nation and, in numerous instances, Prominent ip dividuals connected with the NAACP have suceum 2 , the appeals of the Communist-front apparatus. Pro ' that the NAACP has been troubled wit the prope. of ist penetration is to be found in a i sdopted at the 1956 annual NAACP convention which : “As i t, the Associ reads as follows: “As in the past, sociation wi very reasonable measure in keeping wake Y rganizational principles to prevent the endorser rters and defenders of the Communist spicy from joining or participating in any way in the NAACP.” ; On November 11, 1957, the New York Times re ported that the NAACP had rejected the members! ip icati jamin J. Davis, New Yor state ir- 2 PP he Communist Party, and had declined a gift by Davis. ; ot pe coremoing statements and actions of the leaders of the NAACP appear to be clear and decisive, mt they tell only half of the story. The Mader e ine is that many of the leaders of the c been unusually susceptible to joining, supporting, ane defending the front organizations of the Comm The indisputable truth of the matter is that the leaders of the NAACP, taken as a whole, an - en inarily soft toward the Communist con . the so-called anti-Communist resolution adopted at the San Francisco convention in 1956, there wouls ; appear to be a big loophole in a. phrase, io organiza i i i ocrati - sonable measure in keeping with democ ganiza- i inciples.” i “democratic organizati tional principles.” Obviously, : eng bigh inciples” do not prevent a person from ho ; ortion in the NAACP and high position in a Com munist organization at one and the same ume. Two examples of NAACP officials who are currenty rominent in the affairs of Communist organizations. wi fitustrate the interlocking of the NAACP and the Co ist apparatus. evandrew D. Weinberger, a national vice-president of the NAACP, is listed as treasurer on the 1957 ferternene of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, one of the 4}