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“ GCONFILAMITIAL © * NY 100-161445 yee, - é : i. sm a NASLONAT“TAVYERS GUILD - fhe "Guide to Subversive Organizations and -- - Publications,” revised and published as of December 1, lv, LYRS61. preperecc and released by the Committec on Un- "American Activities, United States House of Represent~ he we eves, Werlisucran, D.C,, contains the following ; concerning. the National Lawyers Guild: “IS “Cited as a Communist front. . (Special Committee on Un~American Activities, House Report 1311 on the CIO Political Action Committee | . we, “National Lawyers Gaild i . . : . 4 . “March 29, 1944, p. 149.) we —-“p. Cited as a Communist front which ‘is the foremost legal bulwark of the ..Communist Party, its front organizations, and controlled unions! and which 'since its inception has never failed to rally to the legal defense of the Communist Party and individual members thereof, including knowm espionage agents.' “(Committee on Un-American Activities, House Report 3123 on the National Lawyers Guild, September 21, 1950, originally related September 17, 1950.) - +3, -4To defend the cases of Communist ~ ‘Jawbreakers, fronts have been devised making special appeals in behalf of civil liberties and reaching out far beyond the confines of the Communist Party itself. . Among these organizations are the * * * ‘National Lawyers Guild. When the pois. .Communist Party itself is under fire i" these offer a bulwark of protection.' {Internal Security Subcommittee of the rs Senate Judiciary Committee, Handbook “ a + for Americans, S, Doc. 117, April: 23, ; “1956, p. 91.)" ’ s , —_ | - 89 | » — CONFIDENCIAL