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WFO 161-2419 a ja ELRtojt UL vo i A letterhead of the Intermatienal Juridieal Agseciation, 100 5th Avenue, New Yerk City, dated January 7, 1942, listed the "Matiemal Cemmittee” ef the Assceliation, Ineluded amoag the nenbers under the heading ‘District of Columbia" appeared the name “ABE FPORTAS," The Internatienal Juridical Asseciation was cited as "a Communist front and aa effsheot ef the International Labor ret peed iad by the Speeial Committee on Un-American Activities, House t 1311 em the CIO Political Actiea ittee, Maroh 1944, Page 149, The October, 1944, 1asued of "The Seurthern Patriot" indicated referring to the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, "The Washingtesa, D.C,, Chapter, under Under-Secretary of the Interior AME FORTAS, had its last dinner meeting attended by over 75 Southerners in the Capital." The "Southern Patriot" was cited as an "Organ" of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare by the Committee on Un-American Activities, House Report 592 on the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, June 12, 1947, Pagea 6 and 9, The Southern Confereace for Human Welfare was cited as a communist front organization “which seeks to attract southern liberals on the basis of its seeming interest in the problems of the South; ‘although its "professed interest in southern welfare is simply an expedient for larger aims serving the Soviet Union and its subse tent Oemphatg? Party in the United States; "by the Committ Un-American Activities, House Report 592 on the Southern. Conference for Human Welfare, June 16, 1947. k6 During the course of an investigation_oonducted BIC b e al Bureau of Investigation in 1949, bID were interviewed in February, 1949, at