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NY 100~7629 \V | RONAN "after the Communists head accomplished thot IN mein purpose of building that case into a world-wide —_ attack on Western democracy, they found that all the defendants were still in prison with littlc likelihood of boing rclcoascd as long as the Communist party stood as the official defonders. So a Bcottsboro Defense Committes was organized, consisting of geven or cight organizations, including tho Commun igs « An eminent cloer n, the Rov. Dr, Allan Knight/Chalimcrs 4/, / aa became the committoc chairman and thereat tof, almost We C08. singloshandcdly, cffoctod the reloase of most of the écefondents. With the passing ycars tho Communists gradually droppod out of the picture, . NITIN Wiif L. ar pes : tae hree Mean. f "By now the Rocscvelt era of coopcration betwoen Russia and America was in full flower, It 4s truc the Sovicts mode a pact with Hitler and during that bricof honoymoon Roosevelt won the favori Communist title of war-mongér, but with the Gcrman army's attack on the Sovict Union, tho ‘line! changed ca litorally ovcrnight and Rooscvelt's America becamo 4 the blcsscd friend and ally in the war on fasciam, .* i] 6 "As the political linc changod, so did tho line on Negro Americans, The Communists abandoned abruptly thcoir widcely-advertised fight for Negro rights. Nothing must interfcre with the war effort, lost such domestic wranglos hurt the aid to tho Sovict Unian, The NAACP, bclicve it or not, was critieizcd as bcing 'too militant! in its wartime fights. The Communists joincd the Southerners in saying in cffect ‘this is not the tinc to fight the roce question, we must fight the war,' So American Negroos fought their bitter battlos against jim crow in tho war (and rather well, too) without the dubious aid of the Amorican Communists, an 4 dy git ar ah { "Tho watchword through thesc years was cooporation, The NALCP, which hed botn lashed as 'bctraying the masses,! as ‘coopcrating with tho lynch-bosscs,!' ctc., ad nauseam, became tolorable, if not respectable, in the eyes of Amcrican Stalinists, ii cONAEENTIAL