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WFO 161-2419 On page 812, "ABE FORTAS" is listed as a member of the National Committee of the International Juridical Association, date not shown, Page 1093 revealed Professor ABE FORTAS, Yale Law School, was listed as a member of the faculty advisory board, American Law Student's Association, date not shown, House Committee on Un-American Activities files contained a pamphlet of the Washington League of Women Shoppers 1010 Vermont Avenue, Washington, D. C., dated May, 1940, The pamphlet gave thanks to “CAROL AGGER and the psychic ABE FORTAS", for their performance in the sideshow at the Skyv-top Fair, held in the Washington Hotel, date not shown, The League of Women Shoppers was cited as "an organization which this committee found to be a communist controlled front by indisputable documentary evidence obtained from the files of the Communist Party in Philadelphia. By the Special Committee on Un-American activities, House report 1311 on the CIO Political Action Committee, March 29, 1944, pages 121 and 181, The files contained a newspaper clipping from the "Washington Star" newspaper dated May 12, 1943, entitled "Roosevelt Rejects FORTAS! Resignation from Interior Post", The article revealed President ROOSEVELT had rejected the resignation of ABE FORTAS, 32-year-old "Under Secretary of the Interior", who sought to give up the civilian post because of fear of bringing criticism on himself and the administration, according to Secretary of Interior ICKES, who had urged that the resignation not be accepted, According to the article, the President vurote Mr, FORTAS, "I appreciate the motives which prompted vou to send me your resignation, You can best serve your country by continuing to do your job as Undersecretary of the Interior, which is responsible for so many war activities, and as 4@ member of the various committees to which veuw'have heen appointed, I shall not accept your resignation,” The article referred to a letter to the President from Mr, ICKES in which he stated that FORTAS had submitted his resignation only because he did not want ICKES or the administration to suffer as a result of public attacks upon him by renaining in a civilian post, - 8 ~