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Birt GREGOR, Chairman of the Portland emergency Council NY 100-98810 "a threat to the civil rights of native and naturalized Americans as well as Torel gners « ; “The National nmer gency ‘Conference, wi th offic at 156 Sth Avenue, is sponsored, according to thezs..-a. announcement, by more than 300 clergymen, educator n others in 30 listed states. The provisional sponsorin committee includes .... Professor ROBERT LYND Ren Confidential Informan advised that a pamphlet which called for a National smergency Conference to be > held at the Ralei Hotel, Washington, D.C., May 13. and 1h, 1939, listed frofessor ROBERT LYND as one of the sponsors of the conference. Confidential Informan of known reliability, advised that. on December 4, 19 rofessor ROBERT or Democratic Rights, Portland, Oregon, sent a written protest to the City Council when the police arrested HAROLDSSPRING, a_well known Communist. This protest was written on the letterhead of the aforementioned organiza~ __ tion and gave the local #xecutive Committee of the orgeniza- tion which included the name of ROBERT LYND. 00 058 The National Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights was cited as a Communist front by the Spe cial. . Committee on Un-American Activities Report, : Hareh 295 pages 48 and 102. The National Federation for © Constitutional Liberties -