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” t wie fae) ey, a Po.) oe . a 4 } 4 ¢ Loe & ~ mY 100-L1674 CONE Pov often in intolerance and narrowness. A similar article appeared in the New York Journel-~American for , daly 28, 494); entitled*REDS ALL WRONG, WRIGHT QUITS 'EM". This article states that until recently RIGHT was ove of the high priests of the Communist + 2 i i e rol 4 .} . ’ fee, Te Th. fat - 3 fy a a a a oa , coe . . . " mo, igfa-- . “ 3 @B a. an : Ue Ly Party - staunchly defending Red ideology as the only possible political philosophy far ET: his race, but today be is hurling epithets at his former Commmist comrades. - Me | This article also referred to the story appearing in the ATIANTIC MONTHLY end om «. quoted the same statenents which appeared in the other newspapers. The Washington Field Office also forwarded a letter te the New York office bringing to ite attention an iter from the solum,"The World Today" by S- SCHITIER appesring in the August 5- 19lss desue of the Pitteburgh Courier. This item called attention to WRIGHT's articles in Atlantic Montkiy and commented briefly upon it. , It is also interesting to note that considerable publicity was given WRIGHT's articles in the Daily Worker newapaper. In the Daily Worker for } dugust 6, 1941, the colum by BENJAMIN J. DAVIS, JR. entitled, "New Times" contains what it terms “a few words on RICHARD WRIGHT and New Ideas”. DAVIS considers first the promises of WRIGHT as an author, which was indicated ty his book, "ative Son®. He then refers to what he calls the public and ubolly unjustifiable attack on the Cosmunists, who were the very organisation whose outlooks had helped | WRIGHT create his aur lgnd peed MVIS stated that accord- Lie vi wRichi * os statemcnts, MS PAM SS 64 re Lap av oe ae oa asked why be waited until now to make this break public and questions whom WRIGHT is trying to impress. DAVIS refers to WRIGHT's attitude as a form of superleftisa which puts him in a class with MOEMAN THOMAS and other "Red-Baters* s Le wad | j iv ‘ - per b DAVIS comments that this attack by WRIGHT comes at as crucial election time when ro the future state of the negroes requires the re-election af Roosevelt. — It is algo noted that in the Daily Worker of August 15, 19L) an article by ko OR 4s entitled, "i. WRIGHT DIDN'T DISCOVER IT*®*. MIR bepine his article with the coment that in the half dozen years that RICHARD WRIGHT was a menber of the Communist Party he did not not discover that the = Communists have no concern whatsoever with persuading people to be loyal to no the Commmist organization per se; that WRIGHT did not discover that the enly you are baad MINOR says that in BRIOHT's article in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY he takes @ position on far bigger questions than whether « person likes Comnmists. Be says that RICHARD WRIGHT forgot the fight of the Negro people and has taken rr .